Posted on 03/01/2019 9:56:49 AM PST by bgill
On February 22, 2019, an Illinois resident with a now confirmed diagnosis of measles was on a flight that arrived in Concourse B at Chicago Midway Airport. The passenger was unvaccinated and infectious on that day. IDPH, along with local health departments, is investigating this isolated case. People may have been exposed to measles if they were at Midway Airport on February 22, 2019 between 9 pm and midnight. This individual also sought treatment in the emergency department at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital on February 24, 2019. People who were in the emergency department between 11:45 am and 2:15 pm also may have been exposed, as well as individuals who were in Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital from 4:00-6:15 pm on February 24, 2019 and from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm on February 25, 2019. These are the only known public locations in Illinois where exposures occurred... This most recent case is not related to the four cases reported in Champaign County earlier this month. This unvaccinated individual traveled overseas to countries where measles is regularly found.
(Excerpt) Read more at dph.illinois.gov ...
Doesn't everyone travel when they have a contagious disease?
He said passengers of incoming flights had to walk through a body heat scanner.
If a passenger had a fever, he/she would be pulled and quarantined.
A friend of mine and her daughter were exposed to some very unwell people at YVR a couple of weeks ago when snowed in.
Somehow, the powers that be managed to get the flight to Asia off, and the unwell folks were ON that flight, but a short hop wasn’t possible and my friend had to bus it outta there.
Look into acerola tabs. I chow down on those things and have been quite healthy.
The original source is an un-vaccinated traveler.
People may have been exposed to measles if they were at Midway Airport
on February 22, 2019 between 9 pm and midnight.
This individual also sought treatment in the emergency department
at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital on February 24, 2019.
If infected, you could develop symptoms as late as March 20, 2019.
Symptoms of measles include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes.
If you develop symptoms of measles, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) recommends you call or email a health care provider
BEFORE going to a medical office or emergency department.
Special arrangements can be made for your evaluation
while also protecting other patients and medical staff from possible infection.
You don’t always know you’re contagious because the most contagious period for most disease is the day before you show symptoms and the day the symptoms start.
I’m 60 and have never had the measles. Mumps and Chicken Pox, I have had.
Something on noon local TV in Philly - didn’t catch details - some sort of mumps outbreak on the campus of Temple University in the middle of the city - undocumented and probably unvaccinated immigrants bringing this stuff into the country?.....
I am the same. I think we missed the trend for measles parties where children were encouraged to “get them” and have it out of the way.
Before the MMR vaccine those diseases killed 300-400 people EVERY YEAR in the United States.
In the 2016-2017 Flu season, 80,000 were killed by the flu.
Get some perspective people. And quit freaking out over the very minor childhood diseases. It used to be that EVERYONE, ALWAYS got MMR and Chickenpox. Block parties would be held to ENSURE every child was exposed.
Everyone.
Always.
In fact it made our species stronger.
Centuries, even millennia of natural selection made it so we could withstand these very harsh diseases. Partial immunity at birth came at the expense of 10s of millions dead over thousands of years.
That’s NOT something we want to give up.
I’ve had them all; measles, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough, tonsillitis, valley fever, pneumonia, exposure to polio (sister had it), smallpox vaccination.
Still here at almost 70 and feel just fine.
But the typical form of measles is still around, still can you seriously ill or even dead, if you let it. Yes, measles infections are mostly beaten off by otherwise healthy, normal, children in what was once its prime age group. But there was good reason for developing the measles vaccine back in the 50s and 60s. The fatal exceptions ran in the millions worldwide every year prior to the vaccines. For those who manage to catch it unusually young, or those who catch it after childhood when their immune response isn't as quick and strong, or those whose immune system is weakened by disease or medications — a much larger group than when the vaccine first came out in the 60s — measles is much more often a very serious illness. Vaccinating the large majority of normal kids, to greatly reduce the amount of circulating virus, is key to protecting those who cannot be safely vaccinated themselves. If we were to stop vaccination completely the death toll would become worse than in the bad old days. With denser populations and greater ease of travel, this, one of—if not THE—most infectious human diseases would spread faster than ever. And the tens of millions of folks with medically compromised immune systems, folks whom in the bad old days were either already dead of their other disease or crippled by lack of available treatment for it, would be dropping like flies.
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Some people are freaking-out over a small number of measles cases, forgetting the massive epidemics of all sorts of diseases that took place before we had vaccines. When I was a kid, almost everyone caught the measles and chickenpox, and people thought nothing of it.
Exactly! It was no big deal back then!
Only one of my kids got the chicken pox however all of them were exposed to it by another family member.
Speaking of travel, France tried taxing the rich horribly years ago and the rich traveled to Belgium and England with their money and stayed there! France’s loss.
Meanwhile at the border, 200 illegals have mumps, and God knows what else is coming over the border unchecked every day. But the Dems are so concerned why Jared Kushner has security clearance because they claim they care about our national security.
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