TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) – The highly contagious disease measles has been making a comeback recently after years of people choosing not to be immunized.
In early February, two people from northwest Ohio attended a Super Bowl party in Indianapolis with 200,000 others. Now, more than a dozen new measles cases have been linked to the Super Bowl.
"There had been a time where people weren't getting immunized over fear of the negative effects of immunization." said Dr. Todd Francis with the Promedica Physician Group, who says that parents have a right to say no to the requirements from schools to immunize.
Henry County Health Commission Anne Goon recently told WTOL about the possibility of having to cut child immunizations if the health department's levy fails in less than two weeks:
"We've gotten used to measles and mumps and whooping cough not being around, but those are diseases that can come back. If children aren't immunized, it makes it that much more likely that they will spread and infect a whole community."
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