Measles Crisis: Judge Dismisses Parents’ Suit Against NYC
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/ A New York judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought against the city’s Department of Health by five parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. The dismissal shores up an emergency order declaring the city’s measles outbreak a public health emergency. In addition to mandating the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine for children in zip codes affected by the crisis, it threatened parents with fines of up to $1,000. There have been 329 confirmed cases of the viral ...
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