Chareidie Israeli babies are dying From Measles

 

A 1.5-year-old toddler from the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem was evacuated on Thursday morning in critical condition to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, after contracting measles. Sadly, he was later pronounced dead.

The toddler has been identified as Yonatan Wisky z”l, son of Rabbi Rafael Shmuel Wisky, a member of the Breslov Hasidic community in Mea Shearim.

According to B’Chadrei Chareidim, emergency medical teams from United Hatzalah performed CPR on the child, who had reportedly lost consciousness at home after becoming infected with measles.

Avremi Rozovski, Yehuda Fahima, and Yaakov Bulag, United Hatzalah medics who were first on the scene, said:

“We performed resuscitation efforts with the help of a United Hatzalah physician. He was then transported in critical condition to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital while CPR was ongoing. The family told us the child had contracted measles and lost consciousness this morning. United Hatzalah’s trauma support teams also responded due to the nature of the incident.”

David Levi and Pini Weiss, volunteers from ZAKA’s emergency response team, added:

“When we arrived, we saw a 15-month-old toddler with measles, without pulse and not breathing. According to the family, he had not woken up from his sleep. Together with other medics and MDA paramedics, we immediately began advanced resuscitation efforts, including chest compressions and ventilation. He was evacuated by MDA’s mobile intensive care unit in critical condition to the trauma room at Hadassah Mount Scopus.”

B’Chadrei Chareidim also reports that the child’s father was in Uman for Rosh Hashanah and received the devastating news there.

The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that this is the fifth death from measles since the outbreak began, all of them children under the age of 2.5 years who had not been vaccinated. 

Three of the fatalities occurred this week alone, all in Jerusalem. During Rosh Hashana a one-year-old girl who had been on an Ecmo machine in Hadassah hospital passed away and on Sunday another baby, also from a charedi family, passed away from the disease.