The Orange County Register reports
Two dozen unvaccinated students [including the one who had measles] have been sent home from Huntington Beach High School for three weeks in the latest effort to slow the measles outbreak spreading throughout Orange County.
An unspecified student with measles was on campus from Jan. 6 to Jan. 8, possibly spreading the extremely contagious disease, according to a letter to parents from Matt Zahn, medical director for epidemiology at the Orange County Health Care Agency.
[...]State law requires schoolchildren to get the MMR shots to protect against measles, mumps, and rubella, but parents who believe there are links between the vaccines and medical conditions such as autism can get an exemption by signing a personal belief waiver.
On Jan. 14, Zahn issued a letter to Huntington Beach High School parents warning that "measles spreads very easily by air and by direct contact. Simply being in the same room with someone who has measles is sufficient to become infected." [...] "One in every 20 people with measles develops pneumonia; more rarely, serious, even life-threatening complications can occur."
Any ideas on how this could be made into a disincentive rather than a 3-week vacation?
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