Satirist Takes Jab At U.S. Measles Outbreak
By John Dodge
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Nigerian satirist's tweet links the U.S. measles outbreak to some Americans' panicked response to the Ebola epidemic in Africa.
The irony wasn't lost on the more than 30,000 people who retweeted the remark:
Elnathan John, a writer and self-described recovering lawyer, was making a pointed reference to the alarmist view by Americans who wanted to ban travel from Africa to the United States during the peak of the Ebola crisis.
John later apologized.
Five babies at a Palatine daycare center were diagnosed with measles this week.
An outbreak of measles at Disneyland made nation news and sparked a backlash against parents who don't vaccinate their children.
