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New York officials warn parents to stop holding 'measles parties' amid latest outbreak
The Hill ^ | April 9, 2019 | Michael Burke

Posted on 04/10/2019 9:06:28 AM PDT by C19fan

New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot on Tuesday warned parents in the city not to hold so-called "measles parties" as officials work to counter an outbreak of the disease.

Barbot warned that some parents have had "measles parties" to have their children infected with the disease in an effort to immunize them naturally, rather than through a vaccination, according to BuzzFeed News.

"We are concerned about families having measles parties," Barbot said at a news conference, according to Fox News.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: barbot; oxiris; vaccines

1 posted on 04/10/2019 9:06:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Liberals.........................Darwinism in action..................


2 posted on 04/10/2019 9:11:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Not as simple as that. In the NYC area Ultra-Orthodox Jews are the ones not vaccinating.


3 posted on 04/10/2019 9:13:53 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Is he ‘concerned’ that not enough will buy the vaccine for sale if Measles Parties become too popular?


4 posted on 04/10/2019 9:15:50 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: C19fan

chickenpox parties were popular before the vaccine in 1995


5 posted on 04/10/2019 9:18:29 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: C19fan

Are they the ones holding the ‘parties’?.............................


6 posted on 04/10/2019 9:18:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: C19fan

Oxiris Barbot?


7 posted on 04/10/2019 9:21:36 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: lee martell

:: not enough will buy the vaccine ::

I think you mean “the loss of subsidized funding from the Federal government will be devastating to the Sate welfare program.”


8 posted on 04/10/2019 9:32:14 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: SMGFan

ookie-mouth.


9 posted on 04/10/2019 9:33:31 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: PghBaldy
Oxiris Barbot?

And, you know, it's a microaggression to ask her how to spell or pronounce it.

It is also a hate crime to misspell or mispronounce it.

10 posted on 04/10/2019 9:35:03 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Red Badger

50+ years ago that was common. Parents wanted their children to get those illnesses when the kids were young. One of my uncles got the mumps when he was in his 20’s a had to be hospitalized.


11 posted on 04/10/2019 9:37:26 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: C19fan
Do people die from measles? I didn't.....

I also contracted the chicken pox from my room mate while in the Army. Got quarantined for 10 days at the base hospital.

Strange thing about that was that the skin on the palms of my hands all peeled off.......

12 posted on 04/10/2019 9:44:20 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: C19fan
Not as simple as that. In the NYC area Ultra-Orthodox Jews are the ones not vaccinating.

I don't get that at all. I'm Jewish and don't recall seeing anything in the Torah or Talmud about exposing your kids to the risk of preventable disease.

13 posted on 04/10/2019 9:49:38 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: C19fan
They call them childhood diseases for a reason. You're supposed to catch them when you're young.

How did so many of us survive our childhoods without the existence of these vaccines?

/s

14 posted on 04/10/2019 10:29:22 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MCF

My father almost died from mumps when I was toddler.


15 posted on 04/10/2019 10:42:48 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: mass55th

With all the scares of disaster, has any of the children who contacted the measles died? Just asking.


16 posted on 04/10/2019 12:14:23 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Hot Tabasco
>Do people die from measles? I didn't.....

Would you be posting here if you had???

17 posted on 04/10/2019 2:13:58 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer ( Waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
Would you be posting here if you had???

You've heard of internet ghosting haven't you?......Yes, I would.

18 posted on 04/10/2019 2:18:51 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Then by all means use those superior skills to Freep/Haunt the Clintons, the Obamas, etc.


19 posted on 04/10/2019 2:26:53 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer ( Waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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