Measles outbreak in DC area

[TZ]

Subject: Measles outbreak in the DC area
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Measles Outbreak Expected To Spread
Posted By: Audrey Barnes 7 days ago
ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- If you passed through Shady Grove Adventist Hospital last weekend, health officials want to hear from you. You may have been exposed to measles.

They've confirmed four cases so far, and expect several more to pop up in the next few days.

Investigators have traced the measles outbreak to a man who traveled out of the country in March. One of his employees then got it too. And now so do two other Montgomery County residents, including an infant. Common factors: none had been vaccinated and all four sought treatment at the emergency room at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=8425...
And now there is a separate outbreak in DC from yet another unvaccinated adult. This of course is why the anti-vax woos beliefs aren't harmless. :grr:

[bluedawg12]

1. Vaccine shmaxine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles

Complications
Complications with measles are relatively common, ranging from relatively mild and less serious diarrhea, to pneumonia and encephalitis (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), corneal ulceration leading to corneal scarring.<3> Complications are usually more severe amongst adults who catch the virus.

The fatality rate from measles for otherwise healthy people in developed countries is 3 deaths per thousand cases.<4> In underdeveloped nations with high rates of malnutrition and poor healthcare, fatality rates have been as high as 28%.<4> In immunocompromised patients, the fatality rate is approximately 30 percent.<5>


Prevention and public health
In developed countries, most children are immunized against measles by the age of 18 months, generally as part of a three-part MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella). The vaccination is generally not given earlier than this because children younger than 18 months usually retain anti-measles immunoglobulins (antibodies) transmitted from the mother during pregnancy. A second dose is usually given to children between the ages of four and five, in order to increase rates of immunity. Vaccination rates have been high enough to make measles relatively uncommon.

[lizerdbits]

2. Good thing my parents got me vaccinated

I also have to have titers done every year or so since I work in a facility with NHPs, and they're very susceptible.

I think the anti vaxers should be given the choice to put their kids in a room with the infected or get them vaccinated (assuming there are no medical contraindications to vaccination).

[uriel1972]

3. but but the viruses they put into vaccines

are the mark of the beast and it is by these viruses that they will know the impure ones froth froth froth

[madinmaryland]

4. But now we're going to have a break-out of autism after

all the vaccines.

Yes.. :wtf: