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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDisneyland measles: Rapid spread concerns health officials
Health officials had hoped to contain the outbreak to Disneyland visitors who were at the park between Dec. 17 and 20, when the virus spread from perhaps a single infected person or an ill family. But Orange County is now reporting six new cases of measles involving people who did not visit the Anaheim attraction during that period. State officials said there were two more such cases in Ventura County and one in Alameda County.
Orange County Health Officer Eric Handler warned that students who have not been vaccinated for measles may be excluded from attending school or day-care to prevent the further spread of the disease. A person who may have been contagious with measles was at Huntington Beach High School on Jan. 7-8.
There are now 16 confirmed measles cases in Orange County, with San Diego County, where there are 10 confirmed cases, the second-hardest hit. Also affected are the counties of Los Angeles (8), Alameda (4), Ventura (3), Riverside (2), and San Bernardino (2), for a total of 45 measles cases in California.
The six other confirmed cases are residents of Colorado (1), Utah (2), Washington state (2), and Mexico (1), a 22-month-old unvaccinated girl who visited Disneyland between Dec. 16 and 18.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-measles-disneyland-spread-alarms-20150117-story.html
Orange County Health Officer Eric Handler warned that students who have not been vaccinated for measles may be excluded from attending school or day-care to prevent the further spread of the disease. A person who may have been contagious with measles was at Huntington Beach High School on Jan. 7-8.
There are now 16 confirmed measles cases in Orange County, with San Diego County, where there are 10 confirmed cases, the second-hardest hit. Also affected are the counties of Los Angeles (8), Alameda (4), Ventura (3), Riverside (2), and San Bernardino (2), for a total of 45 measles cases in California.
The six other confirmed cases are residents of Colorado (1), Utah (2), Washington state (2), and Mexico (1), a 22-month-old unvaccinated girl who visited Disneyland between Dec. 16 and 18.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-measles-disneyland-spread-alarms-20150117-story.html
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Disneyland measles: Rapid spread concerns health officials (Original Post)
phantom power
Jan 2015
OP
It's a shame modern medicine hasn't come up with a way to prevent this illness.
Liberal Veteran
Jan 2015
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underpants
(182,829 posts)1. It's a small world after all
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. Tiny place it be.
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)2. It's a shame modern medicine hasn't come up with a way to prevent this illness.
I guess I don't need to add the sarcasm tag.
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. That will be the name remembered for the great outbreak. Disneyland measles.
The kids will be talking about it long into old age, 'where were you when you got the Disneyland measles?"
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)5. Assuming they don't develop measles
encephalitis and suffer lasting brain damage (1 in 1000).
Or ear infections leading to hearing loss (1 in 10).
Or pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles (1 in 20).
Or just die (1 in 1000).
It's all chuckles until it happens to your child or someone you know, right?
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)6. The anti-vaccine people are out of control