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Measles exposure warning issued for four New York counties
A traveler from Europe may have exposed people to measles in Chemung, Genesee, Livingston and Niagara counties, the New York state Department of Health warned Saturday. The traveler, who has a confirmed case of measles, visited multiple sites in upstate New York on April 30, and May 1-2. Anyone who visited the following locations on these dates and times could have been exposed:
- Old Country Buffet, 821 Country Route 64, Elmira, between 1 and 4 p.m. April 30.
- Ontario Travel Plaza on the New York state Thruway in Le Roy, between 4 and 6:30 p.m. April 30.
- Sheraton Niagara Falls, 300 3rd Street, Niagara Falls, from 5:30 p.m. April 30 to 9:30 a.m. on May 2.
- Niagara Falls Urgent Care, 3117 Military Road. Suite 2, Niagara Falls, between 3 and 6 p.m. May 1.
- Exit 5 on Interstate 390 in Dansville, from 9:30 a.m. to noon May 2.
The times reflect the period that the infected person was in these areas and a two-hour period after the individual left the area. The virus remains alive in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours.
takyon: Measles outbreaks have been reported in Okinawa, Pennsylvania, and Missouri recently.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday May 07 2018, @10:50PM (2 children)
Waning effectiveness I have always read not as "didn't provide an effective immunization" but rather "the conferred immunity wore off relatively quickly".
FWIW, dead virus vaccines often have a relatively rapid waning of effectiveness. I believe the original Salk polio vaccine needed to be repeated every seven years. But they're relatively safe (as vaccines). The live (weakened) virus vaccines tend to confer relatively long immunizations (I think the Sabin polio vaccine was considered permanent), but they're relatively likely to induce an infectious case of the disease. IIRC for the current measles vaccine you are supposed to avoid the very elderly, infants, and pregnant women for a week or so.
I've always felt that it should be a two stage vaccination process, first with a killed virus vaccine and a month or so later with a live virus vaccine.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday May 07 2018, @11:29PM
It's the way I read it also, but the measles component of MMR vaccine is attenuated (live) since 1967. You get revaccinated with MMR because of the mumps and rubella components which do have half-lives, but once vaccinated for measles always vaccinated. So claiming there would be a waning effectiveness from measles vaccine is incorrect.
The key word is 'relative...' The oral attenuated polio vaccine is problematic in that 3 per 1,000,000 doses will revert and cause paralytic polio (VAPP), however, those numbers are nothing compared to the number of persons who would be infected without it (IIRC 1 in 200 and the polio eradication program noted that for the 580 cases of VAPP found there would have been 6,000,000 polio cases (30,000 paralytics), so the numbers are still safer. The injected inactivated vaccine doesn't suffer that but does have a half-life, but is about three times as costly.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:45AM
The recommended protocol for polio depends on where you are. If you are in the U.S., or another low-risk area, they recommend 4 IPV vaccinations. If you are in a high-risk area, they recommend both the OPV for initial vaccination, as there are more side effects and the risk of actually causing a polio outbreak in the area, but it is faster acting. After the initial OPV, they recommend IPV for long-term immunity.