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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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday May 08 2018, @01:53PM (3 children)
Deaths and serious illness still occur even with good control of comorbid conditions, and those comorbidities can arise as complications also. Having to manage a comorbidity because people won't vaccinate is a problem. The period of communication for measles begins four days before symptoms appear, so I'm interested what reasonable protections you feel are in order for infants and elderly to protect them from exposure to an unsymptomatic but infectious person. And the point is not that others die from other conditions, which introduces a straw man. The point is that those 2.6 million deaths were mainly preventable. And sure, we can talk about how those other deaths could also have been prevented, the minute the thread someone posts about an outbreak of famine.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 08 2018, @03:51PM
The famine strawman was propped up because of the 2.6 million "measles related deaths worldwide in 1980" argument. Point being: worldwide, there are lots of problems managing lots of things. Worldwide, contact lenses aren't a good idea because of the lack of ability to manage common infections associated with contact lens use. The measles vaccine has a good history, and with thimerosal preservative in multi-dose vials is economically feasible to distribute worldwide to people who want it. Even with the known risks and >0% rate of complications, I'm "pro" measles vaccination.
Dengue, maybe not so much:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/health/sanofi-dengue-vaccine-philippines.html [nytimes.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:12PM
You should assume that everybody has their own unique disease. Take the precautions needed for that, and disease propagation nearly stops.
No, you won't get perfection, but that isn't required. The requirement is that the average infected person will infect less than one other person, for example 0.5 other people. At a rate of 0.5, an initial population of N infected people will infect N/2 directly, and those then infect N/4, and so on... adding up to a total of about N, and the disease dies out with only 2N having ever been infected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @09:09AM
Infants used to have long lasting maternal antibodies and the elderly already got measles when young and healthy so they had lifelong immunity. This is a problem created by vaccination, not prevented by it.