Over 100 children at the school are susceptible to virus.

Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide.

On Friday, Broward County Public School reported a confirmed case of measles in a student at Manatee Bay Elementary School in the city of Weston. A local CBS affiliate reported that the case was in a third-grade student who had not recently traveled. On Saturday, the school system announced that three additional cases at the same school had been reported, bringing the current reported total to four cases.

On Sunday, the Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) released a health advisory about the cases and announced it was opening an investigation to track contacts at risk of infection.

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    124 months ago

    It’s not that wild. Vaccinate your fucking kids. Period. We do this wild thing with our sob where we listen to the doctor…

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      34 months ago

      You’re preaching to the choir. No matter how many people repeat this basic life saving advice, it will be dismissed as some conspiracy to surrender autonomy and control to the government.

      Looks like these parents would rather surrender their children’s lives to keep their pride.