New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in Williamsburg, the epicenter of the city's worst measles outbreak in a generation
The disease can cause swelling of the brain and lungs, and children under the age of 5 can develop subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a progressive neurological disorder, if they contract measles.Some parents in the Orthodox Jewish community are rumored to be holding “measles parties” where they bring children together to contract the highly contagious disease, said Deputy Mayor Herminia Palacio.
“The point here is to make sure that we maximize the number of people who have accurate information,” Barbot said. It is the first time in recent history that the city declared a public health emergency around measles, Palacio said. Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, agreed that the executive order is justifiable to quell the outbreak but that singling out zip codes might make the decision contentious.
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