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*Huey » Today, 8:47 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 8:47 am

Nolt also explained that the Mennonites who live in Seminole, Texas, a city at the center of Gaines County -- a community known as Low German Mennonites, due to the language they speak -- "lived in relative isolation in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1980s."

 "They missed out on the mid-century public health immunization campaigns in the U.S., be they polio or smallpox or whatever (the Mexican government had a reputation for not engaging with the Low German Mennonites at all)," he wrote. "Thus, they are starting from a different place than other culturally conservative Mennonites whose ancestors have been here since the 1700s."

 Nott went on, "My point is, the so-called Low German Mennonites from Mexico, now in west Texas, don't have that minimum baseline of mid-20th century vaccine acceptance that we see among Old Order Mennonites and Amish in the U.S. because the folks in Seminole missed the whole mid-century immunization push, as they weren't in the U.S. at that time."

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