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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: 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.