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Just a day after the World Health Organisation warned of an alarming surge in measles across Europe, Indonesia's most influential Islamic organisation has issued a religious fatwa against taking the measles vaccine. The Indonesian Ulama Council has declared the Rubella-Measles vaccine "haram," or religiously forbidden.


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By Phillippa Carisbrooke, Fatemeh Hashemi

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Just a day after the World Health Organisation warned of an alarming surge in measles across Europe, Indonesia's most influential Islamic organisation has issued a religious fatwa against taking the measles vaccine. The Indonesian Ulama Council has declared the Rubella-Measles vaccine "haram," or religiously forbidden.



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