Low German-speaking Mennonites face language, trust barriers amid Ontario’s largest measles outbreak in decades, as health workers push to bridge the gap.

Anti-vaccine activists seized on a measles outbreak in Seminole, Texas, and turned the small Mennonite city into a battleground between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

How Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak Her daughter had a rash that covered her body. The five-year-old had a fever and was coughing out ...

Friesen helps more than 700 Low German-speaking Mennonites navigate the health-care system in southwestern Ontario. She says she has guided at least 200 people through the current measles outbreak ...

How Mennonite women are building bridges between public health and community amid measles outbreak By: Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press Posted: 11:29 AM CDT Thursday, Jun. 5, 2025 Last Modified ...

Catalina Friesen, a personal support worker and Low German-speaking liaison, stands in front of a bus outfitted as a mobile walk-in clinic, in St. Thomas, Ont., May 20, 2025.

Low German-speaking Mennonites left to Mexico and South American countries in the 1920s, ... COVID, measles now, I'm not sure what the next thing is going to be, but there will be a next thing ...

In this tangled environment, the responsibility falls on us as individuals to approach information with care,” write Sarah ...