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Twisted anti-vaxxer parents are holding “measles parties” so their children catch the frequently fatal virus instead of being vaccinated.

Health officials in New York are concerned — and furious — over the spread of the parties in the Big Apple borough of Brooklyn.

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“We are concerned about families having measles parties,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot told reporters, emphasizing that “we live in a different world now.”

“There are many more individuals who are living with chronic diseases, who are surviving cancer, and so we don’t want children or adults to be unnecessarily exposed to measles” due to “measles parties.”

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Parents are said to be encouraging their unvaccinated children to get the virus from each other to help them build immunity.

So far in New York, there have been 285 cases of the disease — 246 of them children — which was once thought largely eradicated. There were only two cases of measles in 2017 in N.Y.