Measles Outbreak Among Foreign Job-Seekers

Several cases of measles have been reported among foreign job-seekers and their children since January, the Health Ministry reported Wednesday. Seven foreign citizens living in Tel Aviv were diagnosed with measles in the past week, six of them babies who required hospital care.

The ministry has begun a campaign to vaccinate the young children of foreign job-seekers and their parents. Babies as young as six months will be given the vaccine in hopes of preventing the spread of the illness.