Polio Outbreak Minnesota

Damned Amish should be vaccinating their kids:

The first outbreak of polio in the United States in 26 years

occurred earlier this fall in an Amish community in central Minnesota,

state and federal health officials reported yesterday.

Four

children have been infected with the virus, although none has become

paralyzed. The Amish typically decline to vaccinate their children. The

last large outbreak of polio occurred in numerous Amish communities in

several states in 1979.

The 1940s persist just a few hours from where I sleep at night.

Comments

[Bree]

That's kind of a horrifying prospect, public health-wise, despite what MDH says. Especially since all four are children.