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Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Prompts Vaccine Rethink

Original: Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines

A measles outbreak in Ohio's Amish communities has led some residents to reconsider vaccination, according to a New York Times report. The outbreak has sickened hundreds in one of the country's most vaccine-hesitant populations, and the toll is prompting previously unvaccinated families to weigh getting the measles, mumps and rubella shot as the illness spreads.

Why now: The scale of the outbreak in a famously vaccine-hesitant community is shifting long-held attitudes toward immunization.

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