From National Public Radio:
Measles Outbreak In Ohio Leads Amish To Reconsider Vaccines
The Amish countryside in central Ohio looks as it has for a hundred years. There are picturesque pastures with cows and sheep, and big red barns dot the landscape.
But something changed here, when, on an April afternoon, an Amish woman walked to a communal call box. She picked up the phone to call the Knox County Health Department. She told a county worker she and a family next door had the measles.
That call spurred nurse Jacqueline Fletcher into action.
"The very next morning we were out to collect samples, collect nasal swabs and also draw blood. And it was just textbook measles," says Fletcher.
How bad?
The largest outbreak of measles in recent U.S. history is underway. Ohio has the majority of these cases — 341 confirmed and eight hospitalizations. The virus has spread quickly among the largely unvaccinated Amish communities in the center of the state.
We need to remember that the 'link' between vaccination and autism was a total fabrication. The paper was retracted from the journal that published it (Lancet) and Doctor Andrew Wakefield is now just Andy - he had his medical license stripped for fraud.
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