Responses to outbreak include quarantines, fines and house arrests as public health officials try to balance punishment and prevention of disease's spread

Authorities say disease's spread most prevalent in Orthodox Jewish communities

'They have to get their shots' US president says, despite expressing some support for anti-vaxxers in 2012 and 2015

New York City health officials report 61 new cases since late last week, making 2019 worst year for disease since 1994

Health officials say 71 more cases were reported last week, with 68 of them from New York; total number thus far in 2019 already highest since 2014, when 667 cases were reported

More than 250 El Al workers vaccinated at special center set up at Ben Gurion airport; flight attendant in coma after contracting disease on a flight from New York

Amid measles outbreak, SAR Academy and High School rejects 'religious exemption,' says it's understanding of Jewish law requires children to be inoculated against deadly diseases

Both patients feared to have suffered brain damage; as disease spreads, report warns some 45,000 Israeli kids may not be vaccinated

While program organizers in Greater New York City area may not be asking guests for vaccine records, some are requesting them to be vaccinated before arrival

Physicians serving hundreds of North American Jewish communities urge parents to drop refusal to inoculate children against measles