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Low German-speaking Mennonites face language, trust barriers amid Ontario’s largest measles outbreak in decades, as health workers push to bridge the gap.
Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been ...
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.
LEAMINGTON, ONTARIO - Catalina Friesen got a call one night in February from one of her clients, a Low German-speaking mother in Aylmer, Ont. Her daughter had a rash that ...
Speaking as a vaccinated Mennonite, Amanda Sawatzky says anyone who believes all Mennonites are unvaccinated is wrong. Just like any other population, some are immunized and some are not.
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 ...
There are approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites living in southwestern Ontario, according to a 2024 guide by the Low German Speaking Mennonite Community of Practice in Elgin, St ...
Low German-speaking Mennonites left to Mexico and South American countries in the 1920s, but returned to Canada for better economic opportunities in the 1950s.