Children are vaccinated against measles after the country's emergency declaration

NEW CITY, NY – Some parents who had resisted their children's immunization reluctantly made them come for a measles vaccine while the state of emergency was taking effect in a county of New York. suburbs north of New York.

Rockland County pbaded the emergency order Tuesday night to fight a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall. The order prohibits unvaccinated children in public places such as schools, shops and churches.

Loreen Costa told the Rockland Journal News that she had brought her son to his pediatrician for a vaccination Wednesday after receiving an automated call from his school explaining the ban.

School districts contacted parents of unvaccinated children and told them not to attend clbades on Wednesday.

About 30 people attended Wednesday a free vaccination clinic in the county.