Posted on 04/17/2019 6:27:02 AM PDT by C19fan
An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials.
The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus. She was otherwise healthy before getting measles. "She's been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we're now just hoping for the best," said Dr. Itamar Grotto, associate director general of Israel's Ministry of Health. The flight attendant, who works for El Al, the Israeli national airline, might have contracted the virus in New York, in Israel or on a flight between the two, Grotto said. Health authorities do not believed that she spread the virus to anyone on the flights.
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Measles is a serious disease in an adult, the older the worse it is..................
Was it measles or chicken pox (or both) that we all WANTED to get while we were kids, so we wouldn’t get it as adults?
I had both...................
Brilliant...so then you get shingles.
I hear they are working on a vaccination for this.
If that’s a picture of you on your FR page it would have been chicken pox. It looks like you’re younger than me. Measles were already vaccinated against when I was a kid but there wasn’t a chicken pox vaccine yet.
Airliner cabins are flying gas chambers/petri dishes. Reason #346 I don’t fly.
too bad children are not permitted to get it while they are young...
No one wants to get either disease, but after a bout with measles, you'll be immune for life, or so it is said. On the other hand, the chicken pox virus can return later in life as shingles, a much nastier ailment.
Mumps also affects adults much more severely than children. Although a mumps infection during childhood is supposed to bring lifelong immunity, I know a man who had it as a child nd then as an adult.
I had measles and chickenpox.
Now I fear getting shingles from the chickenpox I had in 3rd grade...............
So are buses and trains.................
She was vaccinated, and they now know that is only 93% effective? And being vaccinated twice is 97% effective? Should we all run out and be revaccinated for everything?
Yes. Adults who have never gotten measles should get vaccinated if they want to. Kids do just fine after a few weeks.
Me too ... also mumps. In more recent years a mild case of shingles. Do I get some kind of merit badge? ;)
Never had mumps, but I haven’t even heard of any cases in years.....................
I’ve had shingles. Nasty. You’ll live through it.
All this fear.
In my day we WANTED to get measles. Well, our parents wanted us to. At least that was drilled into me. There was a big “fear” thing about entering adulthood having not been immunized by getting it as a child. But I’m 65.
The idea is you are immunized as a child, by getting the disease.
“being vaccinated twice is 97% effective?
With 6, you get egg roll.
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