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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 27, 2017, 12:28:14 pm

Title: In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines
Post by: rangerrebew on October 27, 2017, 12:28:14 pm
In Minnesota's worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines

    By Gillian Mohney

May 4, 2017, 6:27 AM ET
 

An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus -- and a battle of beliefs.

The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Eleven have been hospitalized.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/minnesotas-worst-measles-outbreak-battle-beliefs-vaccines/story?id=47155531