(9 May 2025)
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1 May 2025
1. Mennonite couple arriving at clinic to vaccinate their baby
2. Family listening to instructions from health worker
3. Close of baby getting vaccinated
4. Pull focus on information about measles vaccines in Mennonite Low German (left) and Standard German
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 30 April 2025
5. Jacob Dyck Penner, president of Manitoba Mennonite colony
6. Close of Dyck Penner’s hands
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jacob Dyck Penner, president of Manitoba Mennonite colony:
"We immediately decided to launch a (vaccination) campaign in our language (German) so that people would be aware of what was coming, that there was a virus out there and thanks to that translation, people took notice and started paying attention to it."
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1 May 2025
8. Various aerials of Mennonite fields ++ MUTE ++
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 30 April 2025
9. Vaccination team in car
10. Close of nurse Sandra Aguirre filling out document
11. Close of Aguirre
12. Aguirre showing vaccines stored in cooler
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Aguirre, nurse:
"To gain trust of the Mennonites – because they’re reserved and closed-off people – you have to meet them where they’re at and show a friendly face."
14. Pan of vaccination team’s car
15. Health worker during door-to-door vaccination drive, UPSOUND (Spanish): "Good morning"
16. Health worker knocking on door
17. Vaccination team being turned away by member of Mennonite community
18. Traffic
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1 May 2025
19. Sign reading "Doctor" in Spanish and German
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 30 April 2025
20. Cuauhtemoc health director Alexis Hernández looking at map of Chihuahua state
21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alexis Hernández, Cuauhtemoc health director:
"The Mennonite population has a lot of access to social media and family members in the U.S. and Canada, where there are a lot of myths that have taken hold and many more ‘anti-vaccine’ groups than we have in Mexico and Chihuahua."
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1 May 2025
22. View of Manitoba Mennonite colony
23. Worker in apple field
24. Close of apple flower
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 30 April 2025
++ NIGHT SHOTS ++
25. Close of hands of Jacob Goertzen, anti-vaccine Mennonite member
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jacob Goertzen, translator:
"I don’t accept vaccines; it’s that easy. Because that’s where freedom of expression comes in, our freedom to make our own decisions. And if that doesn’t exist and we can’t make our own decisions, we don’t live in a democracy."
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Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, Mexico – 1 May 2025
27. Raramuri Indigenous woman wearing traditional clothes
28. Woman and child walking away
29. Gloria Elizabeth Vega, who caught measles at work, inside her house
30. Vega sweeping floor
31. Cats
32. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Elizabeth Vega, contracted measles at work:
"We must take care of ourselves, but we must also think about others, about how it (not getting vaccinated) will affect them. They say, ‘Well, I have enough to be fine, but they don’t wonder if the other person next to them has the means (to cope with the disease)."
33. Vehicles seen through window
34. Vega and others standing outside house
STORYLINE:
Vaccination teams are part of an effort by health authorities across Mexico to contain the country’s biggest measles outbreak in decades.
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