In Mexico's measles outbreak, Mennonites face vaccine misinformation

Описание: (9 May 2025)
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 1 May 2025
1. Mennonite couple arriving at clinic to vaccinate their baby
2. Family listening to instructions from health worker
3. Close of baby getting vaccinated

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 30 April 2025
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4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jacob Dyck Penner, president of Manitoba Mennonite colony:
"In March, we learned that there were a couple of measles cases in the region."
5. Health center exterior
6. Sign reading (Spanish) "Manitoba Colony"
7. Various of signs with information about measles vaccines in Mennonite Low German (left) and Standard German
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jacob Dyck Penner, president of Manitoba Mennonite colony:
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"We immediately decided to launch a (vaccination) campaign in our language (German) so that people would be aware that there was a problem, a virus. And thanks to that translation, people took notice and started paying attention to it."

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 1 May 2025
9. Various aerials of Mennonite fields

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 30 April 2025
10. Vaccination team on car
11. Close of nurse Sandra Aguirre filling out document
12. Close of Aguirre
13. Aguirre showing vaccines stored in cooler
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Aguirre, nurse:
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"To gain trust of the Mennonites – because they’re reserved and closed-off people – you have to meet them where they’re at and show a friendly face."
15. Pan on vaccination team’s car
16. Health worker during door-to-door vaccination drive, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Good morning"
17. Health worker knocking on door
18. Vaccination team being turned away by member of Mennonite community
19. Traffic

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 1 May 2025
20. Sign reading "Doctor" in Spanish and German

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 1 May 2025
21. View of Manitoba Mennonite colony
22. Worker in apple field
23. Close of apple flower
24. Aerial of machine moving haystacks
25. Various of machine moving haystacks

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 30 April 2025
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alexis Hernández, Cuauhtemoc health director:
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"The Mennonite population has a lot of access to social media and family members in the U.S. and Canada, where there are a lot of myths that have taken hold and many more ‘anti-vaccine’ groups than we have in Mexico and Chihuahua."

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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico - 1 May 2025
27. Car leaving as children play at entrance to Raramuri Indigenous neighborhood
28. Raramuri Indigenous woman wearing traditional clothes
29. Woman and child walking away
30. Catholic image outside home of Gloria Elizabeth Vega
31. Gloria Elizabeth Vega, who caught measles at work, inside her house
32. Vega sweeping floor
33. Cats
34. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Elizabeth Vega, cheese factory worker:
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"On Sunday, I woke up with lots of spots. I was told to go to the doctor because my supervisor also got sick. And they told her it was measles. We must take care of ourselves, but also think about others, about how it (not getting vaccinated) will affect others. They say, ‘Well, I have enough to be fine.’ But they don’t wonder if the person next to them has the means (to cope with the disease)."
35. Vehicles seen through window
36. Vega and others standing outside house
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