{"id":702,"date":"2015-01-30T12:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T19:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2015-02-03T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:30:52","slug":"how-an-amish-missionary-a-disneyland-visitor-started-measles-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/how-an-amish-missionary-a-disneyland-visitor-started-measles-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Amish missionary &#038; an amusement park visitor started measles hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disneylandn_kids_sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-723 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disneylandn_kids_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Measles: An unwanted guest at Disneyland\" width=\"630\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disneylandn_kids_sm.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/disneylandn_kids_sm-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We considered opening with \u201can Amish missionary and an amusement park\u00a0patron walk into a bar&#8230;\u201d but the measles\u00a0outbreak is most definitely not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Last year,\u00a0there were 23 outbreaks of measles in the United States and 644 confirmed cases\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2014\/05\/measles-us-new-high\">the most<\/a> since the disease was declared all but eliminated back in 2000. The 2014 outbreak was reportedly caused by an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/29\/7929791\/measles-outbreak-2014\">Amish missionary who\u2019d traveled to the Philippines<\/a> where he caught the measles, then returned to his community where many friends and family had refused the measles vaccine\u2014and continued to pass along the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2014\/p0529-measles.html\">new data released by the CDC<\/a> shows that 288 cases of measles have been reported in the US since the beginning of the year and over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/28\/arizona-measles-disneyland-_n_6566354.html\">2,000 people are being monitored in Arizona<\/a> after someone was exposed to an infected guest at Disneyland in December. And it may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdph.ca.gov\/Pages\/NR15-008.aspx\">far from over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measles is the one of the most infectious diseases known to man <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A person with measles can cough in a room and then leave\u2014and hours later (if you are unvaccinated) you could catch the virus from the droplets in the air that they left behind. No other virus can do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measles is an entirely preventable illness <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly everyone who gets the proper vaccine will never get sick with measles, even if they&#8217;re exposed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current increase in measles cases is being driven by unvaccinated people, primarily U.S. residents, who got measles in other countries, brought the virus back to the United States and spread to others in communities where many people are not vaccinated, says one assistant surgeon general, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2014\/05\/measles-us-new-high\">Dr. Anne Schuchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The measles and anti-vaxxers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2014\/05\/measles-us-new-high\">\u201canti-vaxxers\u201d<\/a> (the people refuse vaccinations for a variety of reasons). It\u2019s also about people who CAN\u2019T be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Only about two percent of the U.S. population outright refuses vaccines. But every person counts. <strong>Vaccinations don&#8217;t\u00a0just protect you or your children it protects everyone around you. <\/strong>People who are already ill and weakened immune systems, not to mention people who are unable to be vaccinated. The measles vaccine, for instance, is not licensed for use on babies younger than 12 months. That means that, for the first year of life, babies depend on the fact that everybody <em>else <\/em>around them gets vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, measles isn\u2019t deadly, but it&#8217;s almost always debilitating, bringing on a weeks-long fever, rash, and painful, watery eyes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/29\/7929791\/measles-outbreak-2014\">According to an article from Vox<\/a>, Up to forty percent of people experience serious complications, such as pneumonia and encephalitis (or swelling of the brain). One or two children in 1,000 die. Worldwide, measles kills 400 people a day, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthmap.org\/site\/diseasedaily\/article\/measles-kills-400-people-day%E2%80%94-costs-less-buck-avoid-4313http:\/\/www.healthmap.org\/site\/diseasedaily\/article\/measles-kills-400-people-day%E2%80%94-costs-less-buck-avoid-4313\">Disease Daily<\/a>. Yet it costs less than a buck to avoid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The extremely high cost of a measles outbreak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The economic toll of measles is also astounding. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calculated that outbreaks in 2011\u2014a total of just 107 cases\u2014cost state and local taxpayers up to $5.3 million. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/disneyland-measles-schools-outbreak\/22106151\/\">USA Today<\/a> reports that a 2008 outbreak in San Diego cost taxpayers $10,376 per case to trace contacts and administer vaccinations. Why? Due to its high infectiousness and the potential severity of complications, a measles outbreak often constitutes a serious public health event entailing a vigorous response from local public health departments and can involve multiple states and counties.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs286\/en\/?utm_source=WHO+List&amp;utm_campaign=ab1f75ca8f-30_January_20151_30_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_823e9e35c1-ab1f75ca8f-252213097\">The World Health Organization (WHO)<\/a> says during 2000-2013, measles vaccination prevented an estimated 15.6 million deaths making measles vaccine one of the best buys in public health.<\/p>\n<p>Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, there were four million cases (with 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths every year). By 2000, the virus was declared eliminated in the U.S. because enough people were immunized so that outbreaks were uncommon\u2014and deaths from measles were scarcely heard of. Take that, anti-vaxxers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have questions about measles and vaccines? Read this\u00a0article by Julia Belluz: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/26\/7907707\/measles-symptoms-vaccine\">9 things everybody should know about measles<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We considered opening with \u201can Amish missionary and an amusement park\u00a0patron walk into a bar&#8230;\u201d but the measles\u00a0outbreak is most definitely not a joke. Last year,\u00a0there were 23 outbreaks of measles in the United States and 644 confirmed cases\u2014the most since the disease was declared all but eliminated back in 2000. The 2014 outbreak was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brevis.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/how-an-amish-missionary-a-disneyland-visitor-started-measles-hysteria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How an Amish missionary &#038; an amusement park visitor started measles hysteria<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,80],"tags":[83,17,81,48,82,84],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infection-prevention","category-measles-outbreak","tag-cdc","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-measles","tag-saralynn-white","tag-vaccinations","tag-world-health-organization-who"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How an Amish missionary &amp; 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