不食现代科技“人间烟火”的美国阿米什人（Amish）也终于扛不住麻疹的流行，考虑接种疫苗了。自4月份以来，大约有8000人已接种了麻疹疫苗。
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/24/323702892/measles-outbreak-in-ohio-leads-amish-to-reconsider-vaccines
Amish show up at a makeshift clinic to get vaccinated against the measles.
There's been an outbreak of measles among the Amish in central Ohio.
The Amish countryside in central Ohio looks as it has for a hundred years. There are picturesque pastures with cows and sheep, and big red barns dot the landscape.
via: http://www.padutchcountry.com/towns-and-heritage/amish-country/index.asp
But something changed here, when, on an April afternoon, an Amish woman walked to a communal call box. She picked up the phone to call the . She told a county worker she and a family next door had the measles.
That call spurred nurse Jacqueline Fletcher into action.
"The very next morning we were out to collect samples, collect nasal swabs and also draw blood. And it was just textbook ," says Fletcher.
A nurse in Knox County for nearly three decades, Fletcher had never seen the illness, but she knew the symptoms.
Jacqueline Fletcher readies a measles vaccine to give at a makeshift clinic in central Ohio.
About 8,000 Amish people in the area have received measles vaccinations since April.
"The rash. They had the conjunctivitis in the eyes, their eyes were red," she says. "They don't want the light, they sit in the darkened room, wear dark glasses. I mean they were just miserable. High temperatures, 103, 104 temps. So this was the measles."
The of measles in recent U.S. history is underway. Ohio has the — 341 confirmed and eight hospitalizations. The virus has spread quickly among the largely unvaccinated Amish communities in the center of the state.
Fletcher collected samples the afternoon she arrived. A county worker drove them immediately to the state health department and quickly confirmed the measles. The next day, Fletcher says she was on a call with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"I remember the first conversation we had with the CDC," she says. "The fellow said, 'You have to get ahead of this.' "
Fletcher started organizing door-to-door vaccinations, and set up vaccination clinics at various locations.
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via: http://www.padutchcountry.com/towns-and-heritage/amish-country/index.asp
via: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E7%B1%B3%E4%BB%80%E4%BA%BA
与阿米什人有关的电影有：
- 证人（Witness），1985年，哈里遜·福特主演
- Devil's Playground，2002年，记录片
- For Richer or Poorer，1997年，提姆·艾伦主演
