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I am only interested in knowing if the student used rubbers while roading Amtrak...."who road Amtrak"???
LOL.
An English course is a very, very good idea in this case.
Priceless, priceless, priceless.
Measles is going to kill us all!!
It's all Obama's fault!
Anchor babys and calves the size of Grapefruits and black people flying from Africa, oh my!!
The grim reaper is bringing teh measles in 2015!!!
I am only interested in knowing if the student used rubbers while roading Amtrak...."who road Amtrak"???
LOL.
An English course is a very, very good idea in this case.
Priceless, priceless, priceless.
Measles is going to kill us all!!
It's all Obama's fault!
Anchor babys and calves the size of Grapefruits and black people flying from Africa, oh my!!
The grim reaper is bringing teh measles in 2015!!!
Lefties are oh so sensitive about Obama ain't they? I bet Media Matters is trying to figure a way to Blame Fox or Sara Palin."who road Amtrak"???
LOL.
An English course is a very, very good idea in this case.
Priceless, priceless, priceless.
Measles is going to kill us all!!
It's all Obama's fault!
Anchor babys and calves the size of Grapefruits and black people flying from Africa, oh my!!
The grim reaper is bringing teh measles in 2015!!!
Lefties are oh so sensitive about Obama ain't they? I bet Media Matters is trying to figure a way to Blame Fox or Sara Palin."who road Amtrak"???
LOL.
An English course is a very, very good idea in this case.
Priceless, priceless, priceless.
Measles is going to kill us all!!
It's all Obama's fault!
Anchor babys and calves the size of Grapefruits and black people flying from Africa, oh my!!
The grim reaper is bringing teh measles in 2015!!!
Previously, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, was thought to have affected about one in 100,000 previous measles patients, making it a fairly rare disease in pre-vaccine times. But new research released on Friday at the IDWeek expo in New Orleans suggests that this measles complication is much more common than once believed. According to MedPage Today, SSPE might occur in about one in 600 patients, depending on how old the patient was when they suffered from measles. The findings were based on analysis of 17 earlier cases, primarily those who had contracted the illness via the California measles epidemic of 1988 through 1990.
SSPE is a condition that could lay dormant for several years in a person’s system and might manifest a good four to eight years after a patient is infected by measles. The disease’s classical symptoms initially include behavioral changes, but they progress toward more intense seizures over time until patients become comatose. MedPage Today notes that patients might die about one to three years after the initial SSPE diagnosis. Study lead author Dr. James Cherry of UCLA acknowledged that this measles complication was once thought to be “quite rare,” even as a German study in 2013 had hinted that the disease occurs in about one in 1,700 measles cases among children five years old or younger. He also warned that the 1-in-600 rate might be a modest estimate, due to the “really striking” revelations in his team’s study.
A separate report from the Washington Post centered on how vaccination is very important for anybody who is eligible to get an MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. This could result in herd immunity, which protects children that otherwise wouldn’t be immune to any of the diseases in question, thereby protecting them from SSPE as well. The complication is “100 percent fatal” once it becomes active, which means there is currently no known cure, and clinicians have yet to determine the trigger that reactivates the virus. Babies below 12 months of age are especially vulnerable to the aforementioned measles complication as their age excludes them from receiving the MMR vaccination. The first dose of this vaccine is typically given out when a child reaches 12 to 15 months of age.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Dr. Cherry succinctly and indirectly warned against the dangers of parents delaying vaccinations for their children, or refusing to have their children get the necessary vaccinations to protect them from measles and other infections. Government data shows only 92 percent of children in America aged 19 to 35 months old have gotten MMR vaccines. Measles was once thought to be completely eradicated in the United States, but recent government statistics suggest that the disease is returning to prominence. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been 54 cases reported in 2016, which nonetheless remains far from the total 667 cases reported in 2014, and the 189 documented in 2015.
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That''s pretty bad.
Student Who Road Amtrak NYC Diagnosed With Measles
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If someone literate sees it, they'll correct I suppose.
No way. This is NYC so it's clearly on Trump.Lefties are oh so sensitive about Obama ain't they? I bet Media Matters is trying to figure a way to Blame Fox or Sara Palin."who road Amtrak"???
LOL.
An English course is a very, very good idea in this case.
Priceless, priceless, priceless.
Measles is going to kill us all!!
It's all Obama's fault!
Anchor babys and calves the size of Grapefruits and black people flying from Africa, oh my!!
The grim reaper is bringing teh measles in 2015!!!
Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through the air via coughing and sneezing. The illness starts with a fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes and a sore throat. It's followed by a rash that spreads over the body. While the disease is treatable, the CDC said, one or two out of every 1,000 children who get measles die from complications. This year's outbreak is on pace to surpass last year's, when 118 people from 15 states and the District of Columbia were reported to have measles. In 2016, 86 people from 19 states contracted the illness.
A nurse holds a vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass.
The CDC said the majority of people who contracted measles were unvaccinated. Prevention is key, because the virus can be spread easily. The measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed, according to the CDC. Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, 90 percent of unimmunized people in close contact with the infected person will also become infected.
In 2015, the United States experienced a large, multistate measles outbreak linked to an amusement park in California. The outbreak most likely started with a traveler who became infected overseas, then visited the park. The source of the infection was never identified. The CDC recommends children get two doses of the vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age. Lifetime effectiveness means adults vaccinated as children don't need to be revaccinated.
Measles Outbreak Hits 21 US States, CDC Says
The Ohio mother of two was once an active member in the anti-vaccine community, particularly online. Anti-vaccine groups, like the one she was a part of, believe that vaccines expose children to health risks and can cause harm. Leon said she never thought about vaccinations until she became pregnant with her first daughter. The family she worked for as a nanny did not vaccinate their children and encouraged her to do the same. Leon said part of what convinced her was the standard vaccine regimen for young children. “I never really believed vaccines were linked to autism,” she said. “That wasn’t a belief or fear of mine. I just didn’t want my baby to have all those shots.”
The cost of vaccine hesitancy
Some medical professionals refer to this idea as “vaccine hesitancy.” The term can refer to a fear of a particular vaccine, or a concern that a baby’s immune system isn’t ready yet. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told VOA he finds it helpful to point out “your body is already being exposed to many, many more stimulants than you’re going to get with a vaccine.” Benjamin said vaccines aren’t any more overwhelming than the environment babies are exposed to at home. The world is filled with bacteria, viruses and other nasty microbes that a baby’s immune system is able to fight off. And the diseases they aren’t so well-equipped to handle? That's where vaccines come in.
Jennifer Wonnacott holds her son Gavin as he points to a sign showing support of a measure requiring nearly all California school children to be vaccinated, at a news conference after the bill was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown
Vaccine hesitancy might seem relatively harmless, but Benjamin said it can have costly effects. “That big outbreak of measles we had out in California a few years ago, the one with Disneyland, a lot of that was not people who were adamantly opposed to vaccines, but they were hesitant for a variety of reasons,” he said. According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 100 confirmed cases resulted from an initial 11-year-old unvaccinated child. Twenty-eight of those infected were intentionally unvaccinated because of personal beliefs.
When it comes to vaccination issues, sick children missing class and falling behind in school aren’t the only costs. “Somebody has to take care of that child when they’re home, so that may very well be a day of work for someone,” Benjamin noted, adding that there are also “health care costs if that child gets a complication from pertussis or measles or chickenpox. ”In the case of measles, as was seen in the Disneyland outbreak, what starts out as a rash can lead to dangerous and expensive complications such as deafness, cardiovascular complications, induced pneumonia, and even death.
Vaccines as a training ground
