Posted on 09/03/19
| News Source: US News
NEW YORK (AP) — A measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is over, meaning an emergency order mandating vaccines will be lifted, health officials said Tuesday.
The officials said two incubation periods since the last reported cases have passed without any new infections. But city Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot cautioned that there's still a threat from "one of the most contagious diseases on the face of the earth," and urged New Yorkers to still get their children immunized before the start of the new school year.
"Staying up to date on vaccines is the best way for people to protect the health and safety of their friends, family and neighbors," Barbot said.
The city has seen 654 cases of measles - the most in 30 years - since an outbreak mostly concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn began in October 2018, officials said. That prompted an emergency order mandating that nearly everyone in those neighborhoods get vaccinated or face possible fines.
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