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LE SHOPPE STORE HOURS ARE TUESDAY-FRIDAY 12 - 6PM • SATURDAY 11-6PM • SUNDAY 12-4PM LE SHOPPE TOO IS ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS, PLEASE CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT 248-481-8884 3325 Orchard Lake Road, Keego Harbor, MI 48320 **The former House of Denmark building** (248) 481-8884 info@leshoppe.net 14 February 5 • 2015 1976750 As private schools, Hillel and Akiva are not obliged to accept religious or philo- sophical waivers. Parents can also request a waiver on medical grounds for the rare instances when a health condition, such as leukemia or severe allergy, makes a child unable to take the vaccine. Aldva's letter said the advisory committee would review such requests. Measles Increasing The CDC says measles was declared eradi- cated in the U.S. in 2000, after fewer than 60 cases were diagnosed, all arising from contact with international travelers. Since then, an increasing number of parents have decided not to vaccinate their children, and as a result, the number of measles cases has increased, as has the number of pertussis cases. Between January and the end of November last year, 610 cases of measles had been confirmed in 24 states. Since then, more than 60 people have contracted measles, most of them after being exposed in December at Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park, both in Anaheim. Michigan's first case of measles, in an Oakland County adult, was confirmed in late January and may be linked to Disneyland. Nearly 10,000 cases of pertussis were reported in the U.S. in the first half of 2014, according to the CDC, a 24 percent increase over the same period the year before. California, the state with the high- est number of cases, declared a pertussis epidemic. Vaccines are effective because of a concept called "herd immunity." When a certain majority of the population is immunized, the disease will not spread if an infected person comes into the com- munity. This protects those few who are unable to be vaccinated because of health reasons and babies too young to be vac- cinated. "Herd immunity provides protection for those who can't be immunized, such as newborns — and they are very vulnerable to pertussis — or those with comprised immune systems, such as people who have had a bone marrow transplant:' said Lisa Klein, M.D., a pediatrician with Child Health Associates in Troy and Farmington Hills. "If enough people do not get immu- nized, the barrier is lowered and diseases can spread more easily. Even one case of measles can spread quickly if others in the vicinity are not vaccinated:' Measles is one of the most contagious diseases. Early symptoms include sore throat, a hacking cough, runny nose, light sensitivity and fever, followed in a few days by a red rash. In rare cases, the dis- ease is fatal. An MMR shot — for measles, mumps and rubella — is given to infants at about 12 months and again at age 5 or 6. Jewish View Jewish objections to childhood vaccina- tions seem to come mainly from some ultra-Orthodox groups. For example, measles cases in New York have been concentrated in the Borough Park and Williamsburg areas, both of which have large Orthodox populations. Fifty-eight people there were diagnosed with measles in the spring of 2013, one of the largest outbreaks since 2000. A story in the Jewish Daily Forward says a CDC report on the incident showed nearly 80 percent of the people who fell ill were members of "three extended families whose members declined use of measles vaccine:' Nine of thosse who got sick in Williamsburg had also refused vaccina- tion. Yet, a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene representative said 96 percent of yeshivah students in Brooklyn are vaccinated, according to the Forward story, and ultra-Orthodox insid- ers in Brooklyn say vaccinations are near- universal in the community. Opposition to vaccines does not appear to be based on Jewish law. Although some vaccines can be made with gelatin or pork products, Jewish law bans consumption of non-kosher products, not injection, Rabbi Menachem Genack of the Orthodox Union's kosher division said in the Forward story. Most Jewish authorities feel vaccina- tion is justified by the principle of pikuach nefesh, which holds that anything done to save a life supersedes all other Jewish laws. Pikuach nefesh was the concept driving Hillel, where most of the students iden- tify as Conservative, and Akiva, which is Modern Orthodox, in their policy revisions. "As a religious school, we can determine whether refusal of the vaccine has any religious merit, and we decided it does not:' Hillel's Freedman said. "We are concerned with the safety not only of our students, but also of the community." Jason Miller of West Bloomfield, a Rabbi Jason Conservative rabbi who Miller has three children at Hillel, said he was very happy with decision. Just one unvac- cinated child at the school would put all the children at risk "A core ethic of Judaism is pikuach nefesh," he said. "With modern medicine, we understand that it is essential for good health that babies and young children receive vaccinations on the required sched- ule. Not receiving these vaccinations puts that individual's life at risk as well as count- less others. I argue that refusing vaccina- tions is antithetical to living in accordance with Jewish law:' ❑