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the-future-now:

Anti-vaxxers “targeted” Minnesota’s Somali community. Now they have a measles outbreak.

• Minnesota’s
  Hennepin County is in the midst of the state’s largest measles outbreak
  since 2011. Nine cases have been reported since last week, and
  officials expect the number to rise.
• So far,
  all of the cases are among unvaccinated children. They have something
  else in common too: The affected children are all part of Minneapolis
  and St. Paul’s Somali-American community.
• According to a health
  department official, Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community has been a
  particular target of the anti-vaccination movement, colloquially known
  as “anti-vaxxers.”
• “They’re very much
  engaged with and targeting this community,” Kris Ehresmann,
  infectious disease division director at the Minnesota Health Department,
  said in a phone call Wednesday.
• According
  to Ehresmann, anti-vaccine groups began to target the Somali community
  around 2008, amid concerns about autism among Somali-American
  children.
• Anti-vaccine groups started reaching out to the Somali
  community and showing up at community health meetings, she said,
  disseminating misinformation linking autism to the measles, mumps and
  rubella vaccine, or MMR. Since then, the population has seen a “steady decline in MMR vaccine rates.” Read more (4/19/17)

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Just call it what it is, Genocide.  Lying to people to strip them of safety and protection, exposing them to death should be just as illegal as pushing a person in front of a moving vehicle.