New York will not back down on measles vaccination order
Five people who say they are parents living in the affected neighbourhoods, have sued the New York health department
New York — New York City's department of health defended its mandatory measles vaccination order in a state court on Thursday after a group of anonymous Brooklyn parents sued, arguing that the order was unconstitutional. The department issued the order last week, saying it was an unusual but necessary step to contain the worst outbreak of the highly contagious virus seen in the city since 1991. The outbreak has infected 329 people so far, most of them children from Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn. The order, which was extended this week, requires unvaccinated people living in certain affected Brooklyn neighbourhoods to get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine if they cannot otherwise demonstrate immunity to measles, or face a $1,000 fine. Five people who said they were parents living in the affected neighbourhoods sued the department this week in Brooklyn's Supreme Court, filing their lawsuit anonymously in order, their lawyers said, to protect their childrens' privacy. Their l...
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