A New York suburb has prohibited kids not inoculated against measles from public spaces, such as schools and shopping malls, as it battles the state’s most noticeably bad flare-up in decades of the potentially deadly disease.

Rockland County declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and said the ban would remain in place for 30 days or until unvaccinated children get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot.

The Rockland declaration pursues measles episodes in California, Illinois, Texas and Washington and is a piece of a worldwide resurgence of the viral infection, as per the U.S. Communities for Disease Control and Prevention.

“We will not sit idly by while children in our community are at risk,” County Executive Ed Day said in a statement. “This is a public health crisis, and it is time to sound the alarm.”

There have been 153 affirmed instances of measles in Rockland County, around 11 miles (18 km) north of Manhattan, for the most part among children who have not been vaccinated.

The ban starts at midnight after which unvaccinated kids won’t be allowed in areas, such as places of worship, schools and shopping malls. Outdoor spaces like play areas are rejected from the ban.. Individuals therapeutically unfit to get vaccinated are exempt.

The flare-up started when an explorer visited Israel and came back to a prevalently ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Rockland County. There have additionally been somewhere around 181 affirmed instances of measles in the New York wards of Brooklyn and Queens since October, for the most part among Orthodox Jews, as indicated by the city’s health department.

The New York and Washington flare-ups started after U.S. travelers got measles in remote nations, where the illness was running uncontrolled, and took it back to places where vaccination rates were excessively low by U.S. public health standards.

The disease has spread mostly among school-age children whose parents declined to get them vaccinated, citing reasons such as philosophical or religious beliefs, or concerns the MMR vaccine could cause autism, authorities said.

Vast logical examinations have shown that there is no link among antibodies and autism.

Officials say the measles outbreaks offer a lesson about the importance of maintaining a minimum 95 percent “herd” level of immunization against dangerous, preventable diseases such as measles. Rates as low as 60 percent were found in parts of New York where measles spread, State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said in February.