Brooklyn Measles Outbreak Cost City Nearly $400K

Original Article: NY Post A 2013 measles outbreak that hit two Brooklyn neighborhoods — infecting 58 people, all of them unvaccinated against the disease — cost the city’s health department nearly $400,000, according to a new study. Between travel, testing equipment and over 10,000 hours of work by 87 staff members, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene was forced to spend $394,448 fighting the contagion, the Journal of the American Medical Association inquiry found. The outbreak began in March 2013, when a single infected child returned to New York from a trip to London, wrote Dr. Jennifer B. Rosen of the city Health Department, who authored the study along with two others. From that point until June 2013, 58 people contracted measles in Williamsburg and Borough Park, ranging in age from infancy to 32 years old. Each of the