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An undated photo showing Rotem Amitai. (Courtesy)
August 13, 2019, 1:43 pm
El Al flight attendant dies 4 months after contracting measles on plane from NY
43-year-old Rotem Amitai, who had been vaccinated with 1 dose out of the recommended 2, becomes 3rd fatality in recent outbreak of highly contagious disease
By TOI staff
In this Friday, May 17, 2019 photo, Starr Roden, left, a registered nurse and immunization outreach coordinator with the Knox County Health Department, administers a vaccination to Jonathan Detweiler, 6, at the facility in Mount Vernon, Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)
June 6, 2019, 4:16 am
Number of measles cases in US this year surpasses 1,000
Outbreak deemed the largest since 1992; Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar calls to step up campaign to halt spread of misinformation about vaccines
By AFP
Illustrative. A one-dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus (MMR) vaccine at the Health Department of Salt Lake County, Utah, on April 26, 2019. (George Frey/Getty Images)
April 29, 2019, 11:29 pm
US measles cases climb above 700 for year for first time in decades
Authorities say disease’s spread most prevalent in Orthodox Jewish communities
By AFP
Illustrative: El Al flight attendants stand inside the Boeing 737-900ER aircraft at the Ben Gurion International Airport on October 23, 2013.(Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)
April 22, 2019, 2:26 am
Health Ministry orders Israeli airlines to vaccinate crews against measles
More than 250 El Al workers inoculated at special center set up at Ben Gurion Airport; flight attendant still in coma after contracting disease on a flight from New York
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A patient getting a measles vaccination in Jerusalem in November 2018. (Courtesy Health Ministry)
April 18, 2019, 9:23 pm
Israel sounds alarm on measles after El Al flight attendant, boy slip into comas
Both patients feared to have suffered brain damage; as disease spreads, report warns some 45,000 Israeli kids may not be vaccinated
By TOI staff
A nurse prepares the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, on April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)
April 15, 2019, 8:25 pm
Measles infections quadruple worldwide in past year, driven by anti-vaxxers
First quarter of 2019 sees 112,000 reported cases, up from 28,000 in same period last year; in US, ultra-Orthodox vaccine skeptics are epicenter of spread
By Agencies
New Square, a village in Rockland County, New York, is home to the Skverer Hasidic group. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
March 27, 2019, 12:30 am
NY county with large ultra-Orthodox community bans unvaccinated minors in public
Rockland declares state of emergency, imposes drastic step, as outbreak of measles linked to Jewish communities in which vaccination rates tend to be lower
By Mary Esch
In this frame from video, a person walks off an Emirates plane at JFK International Airport to a waiting bus on September 5, 2018, in New York, as emergency response crews gather outside the plane amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai. (WABC 7 via AP)
September 5, 2018, 8:20 pm
Dubai jet quarantined in New York after reports of sick passengers
CDC says 100 of the 520 people being evaluated after complaining of illness, including cough and fever
By AP
The assembly line at Empire Kosher Poultry’s plant in central Pennsylvania is the largest kosher one of its kind in America, with 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys passing through every week. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
August 30, 2018, 3:50 am
1 dead, 17 sick from salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken
CDC says outbreak of the food-borne infection has shown up in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia; death occurred in New York
By JTA
A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
August 17, 2018, 10:40 pm
Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests
Israel-born genetics scholar asserts trauma of procedure tied to prevalence of SIDS, though his claims are rejected as ‘nonsense’ by one pediatrician
By JTA
Illustrative: The Capitol in Washington is seen early Thursday, July 13, 2017, (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 20, 2018, 2:07 am
What actually closes in a US government shutdown?
About 850,000 federal workers, out of a total 3.5 million, could be told to stay home without pay until Congress reaches an agreement
By AFP
Sarin gas in 105 mm artillery shells being stored at a US site (illustrative photo: Courtesy)
April 8, 2017, 12:32 am
Sarin: Lethal nerve gas that kills in minutes
Discovered in Nazi Germany, chemical agent was used by Saddam Hussein’s regime to gas thousands of Kurds in 1988
By AFP
Zak Stern, owner of Zak the Baker in Wynwood, Miami, on September 19, 2016 (AP/Lynne Sladky)
September 21, 2016, 10:31 am
Miami kosher cafe celebrates control of Zika
Local baker offers free lunch to pregnant women after state declares area free of virus 45 days after last case
By JTA
A researcher looks at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes kept in a container at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 8, 2016. (AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA)
August 4, 2016, 6:15 am
Health Ministry issues Florida travel warning over Zika
Pregnant women and those who want to become pregnant urged to avoid Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where first US cases were recently found
By AFP and TOI staff
May 27, 2015, 5:00 am
Whooping cough warning issued in Brooklyn’s Orthodox communities
21 confirmed cases of pertussis reported, among them 10 whose parents weren’t vaccinated against the disease
By JTA
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