Measles death in Washington state 1st in U.S. since 2003

[SidDithers]

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.3136030

A Washington woman died from measles in the spring — the first measles death in the U.S. since 2003 and the first in the state since 1990, health officials said Thursday.

The woman lacked some of the measles' common symptoms, such as a rash, so the infection was not discovered until an autopsy, Washington State Department of Health spokesman Donn Moyer said.

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Officials didn't say whether the woman was vaccinated, but they did note she had a compromised immune system. They withheld her age to protect her identity but said she was not elderly.

The woman was hospitalized for several health conditions in the spring at a facility in Clallam County, which covers the northern part of the Olympic Peninsula.

She was there at the same time as a person who later developed a rash and was contagious for measles, Moyer said. That's when the woman most likely was exposed.

News release from Washington State Dept of Public Health:
https://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/HHS_ExposureSites.pdf

Sid

[tymorial]

1. A useless death at the hands of pseudoscience and histrionics

EOM.

[NuclearDem]

2. Anti-vaxxers now have blood on their hands.