Yet Another Measles Outbreak Traces Directly To Antivaccine Autism Panic

History repeats itself for the nth time in a decade as yet another community suffers through a measles outbreak that traces directly to antivaccine fervor and thoroughly debunked claims that vaccines cause autism. This time, the victims of this campaign of alternative facts are members of a Somali American community in Hennepin County, Minnesota. It's the second measles outbreak in the last few years in this particularly vulnerable population.

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