Rockland County, NY – More than 300 people in Rockland have been diagnosed with the mumps as a cluster that started last summer in an upstate camp for Jewish boys and turned into the largest outbreak nationwide in years continues, health officials said.
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A total of 303 cases have been diagnosed in Rockland, Commissioner of Health Joan Facelle said.
Just about all local cases of the highly infectious disease are among Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic residents of Monsey and New Square, she said.
“We are hoping that we are past the peak,” said Facelle. “But it’s too soon to tell.”
People of Monsey – this mumps outbreak is the fallout of Finkel and Tropper. This is plain and obvious.
This does not look good for the people of New Square in the eyes of Rockland County inhabitants. Medicaid pays for these shots, so there is no excuse why a parent would refuse to have their kinder innoculated. People outside of NS are afraid of having their kids come in contact even in a supermarket with the Chasids. It’s a shanda and very abusive to allow a child to get the mumps.
HUH? It is because people do not immunize their children even though they can do it for free!
Just for your info I got a booster mmr shot 18 months ago and got the mumps anyway, my kids were all imunized and they also got the mumps. So much for this shot working
I was immunized and got it anyway.
So I assume the immunization is not effective
To insure one is immune from the mumps, measles, pertusis, just ask your doctor for a blood titer. One simple blood test will tell you if you are immune. Children may have received the vaccine but did not build up immunity. Then they need a second dose, though usually one MMR is enough. Others are getting it because their parents chose for them to not get the MMR vaccine as children. Those who never had it are getting the illness and passing onto those who did not build up an immunity from receiving the shot the first time. Mumps can cause sterility in men. It is a painful disorder called mumps orchitis. Be responsible and get a blood titer and get immunized if needed.
Medical research shows that imunizations only works 90%, and that is in every community. Ask your childs pediatrician and they will tell you the same.
It has nothing to do with New Square, Monsey or KJ. Its just that those communities are well knit and therefore it spreads easily othe areas like Forshay have the same prob lems they just not labeled Cbhasidim and therefor not flaged.
Have a good vuch and get a real life.
the whole reason you got the mumps is the person who brought in the mumps from England didn’t have the vaccination and then it mutated to a version that the vaccination does not work for!
I work in a school where a number of teachers came down with mumps and they were immunized as children. Once again, the Journal News has gotten this story and the disgusting comments abound. The worst comments are from the secular Jews. Very sad.
The researchers who originally claimed that immunizations can cause autism have just published a retraction (which is very unusual in medicine). They admit that they “doctored” their results in order to draw false conclusions- that is, they lied.
It’s a lot safer to immunize your children than to risk the side effects of mumps.
BTW 1. A lot of vaccines require two or more shots to be effective. If you only got one shot, you won’t be immune.
2. Unfortunately, it has come out in some cases that yeshivas filed information with the state dept. of ed in NY that their students had been immunized when in fact they had not. Just because there is a piece of paper saying a child is immunized, a parent shouldn’t believe it unless they had the immunization done themselves.
In brooklyn over 1300 cases of mumps
Now they refuse the MMR vaccine and later they may ch”v have tehillim-a-thons for the sterile men in childless marriages. Sheer genius. And those idiotic natural healers with beards get all the blame for encouraging people to stay away from vaccines.
A month ago I hosted for Shabat a guest who is a frum infectious disease expert with the CDC. He had been sent to NY to investigate the mumps outbreak in Kiryas Joel. He reported that the Rebbe had personally taken his team to the schools to emphasize to everyone that this was a dangerous disease and that we all need to cooperate with the people who know the most about how to stop its spread. He also reported that in KJ almost all the children have indeed been vaccinated. The vaccine unfortunately is not 100% effective, though, hence the outbreak. But the vaccine plus sanitary precautions like handwashing are the best weapons HaShem has given us at the moment.
The article did not need to mention that those with mumps were Yidden it is irrelevant to the news. The responses to this article were unfortunately horribly Anti-Semitic the the journal news website would most likely not allowed such comments were they made about any other group.
Mumps enters the body like food and affects the reproductive system.
Kashruth was challenged in Monsey by Finkel and the reproductive system by Tropper.
There is a connection here!!
IT should be born out that if one defines how effective the vaccine is, in combination with the percentage of the population vaccinated, one can define a threshold beyond which you’ll end up with a certain case. If you have a certain nucleus of non-vaccinated people, eventualy you end up with enough of them to spread an oubreak to those with incomplete immunities.
which is why EVERYONE needs to be vaccinated against these desieses, because it isn’t just your kids, its my kids as well, even if I vaccinate them, if they are unlucky enough to not have complete immunity (which may be a genetic factor)
Even with immunizations – NOTHING is FOOLPROOF. NOT giving an immunization is CERTAINLY looking for TROUBLE CH”V. NOBODY should be allowed into Yeshiva without immunization. Why should my immunized child be at risk for illness because of your unimmunized child?? It’s downright CHUTZPAH and no FRUM school should let such CHUTZPAH happen!! Those schools that ALLOW it are ACCOMPLICES to the CRIME!! LO SAAMOD AL DAM REYECHA!!
As a physician I think it is imperative that each person educate themselves regarding the risks and benefits involved in vaccinations and not put the decision upon their physician or anyone for that matter. Below is a quote from the website http://www.vaccinationeducation.com: “Because vaccines are a preventative measure, they should never be forced. An anti-viral is something that is a response to an outbreak. This is not the same as a vaccination. A vaccination is a strictly preventative measure to help reduce the risk of the patient getting sick. It quite simply just improves the immunity to a particular disease. But since it is not a responsive measure, in other words, since it is not an anti-biotic or anti-viral trying to fight an infection or disease that you actually have, then there is no reason to make people get a vaccine by force. The United States overwhelmingly supports this idea, although health officials and politicians in different states are radically changing this issue, many people consider to be a personal rights issue relating to one’s liberty, or right to choose.”