How Mennonite Women Are Building Bridges Between Public Health and Community Amid Measles Outbreak

Winning hearts and minds over vaccines

The World Health Organization listed vaccine hesitancy -- when parents delay or withhold vaccines for their children -- as one of the Top 10 health risks for 2019. Now, with more than 700 confirmed cases of measles in 23 states, public health officials are scrambling to put a stop to it. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on health experts using science as an antidote to misinformation about vaccines.

How Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak

Low German-speaking Mennonites face language, trust barriers amid Ontario’s largest measles outbreak in decades, as health workers push to bridge the gap.

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How Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak

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Colorado confirms its 12th measles case of the year as DIA outbreak expands

Colorado health officials on Wednesday confirmed the state’s 12th measles case of the year as the number of people who’ve contracted the virus from an infected individual at DIA continues to grow.