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The city Health Department on Thursday again called on parents to vaccinate their children against measles, as an outbreak in Brooklyn, mostly affecting the Orthodox Jewish community, grew to 121 cases since October.
The department identified 31 new cases, including five diagnoses in the past week and 26 cases discovered after patients' symptoms had subsided. Twenty-one of those new cases were tied to a yeshiva in Williamsburg.
Borough Park and Williamsburg, Borough Park and Williamsburg.
The Health Department found the first case in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively.
Measles is a highly contagious, airborne disease and can cause pneumonia, swelling of the brain, and some death cases, according to the Health Department.
"As a pediatrician," Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said in a statement. "Measles is a serious, highly contagious and potentially deadly infection."
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