Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what the status of the two people are who caught it? I don't know how serious measles is - are the hospitalized? Is this life threatening?

Most children who get measles are just sick, occasionally enough to be hospitalized. However, there is a not insigificant risk of permanent damage such as deafness, impaired vision, and spasticity. Death is possible but permanent impairment is a greater risk.

I don't know what happens to adults who get measles. Typically, childhood illnesses are much more severe when they occur in adults.

The first victim in NOVA was a child who hospitalized several days. From the descriptor of places the second victim visited, there is a good chance he or she is an adult and, thus, may be sicker than the first victim was.

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't the government stepping in and forcing people to vaccinate.

+10000


ESPECIALLY those who are high risk, who are infecting everyone else!

Does anyone know what the status of the two people are who caught it? I don't know how serious measles is - are the hospitalized? Is this life threatening?

Anonymous wrote:So there's a strain of measles going around, that isn't covered by the current vaccine?

Has it mutated?

It's the same strain it always was, but no vaccine is 100% effective.
There will always be people that get the virus despite the vaccine.

Anonymous wrote:So there's a strain of measles going around, that isn't covered by the current vaccine?

Has it mutated?

Someone has been watching waaaaaay too many movies.

Anonymous wrote:my vacinnated 2 yo got chicken pox

chicken pox is only 85% effective - measles is a lot higher

So there's a strain of measles going around, that isn't covered by the current vaccine?

Has it mutated?

No vaccine is 100% effective for 100% of the population. That is why it is important to keep vaccine rates high, so that those who do not have an effective response to the vaccine or those who cannot have vaccines are protected via herd immunity.

my vacinnated 2 yo got chicken pox

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Anonymous wrote:The first child who had measels was unvaccinated. You can read the health alert link from Ffx hospital. It's linked in the general discussion forum.

According to South Riding pediatrics, the child was vaccinated.

I thought the child was four years old, so had the first dose but hadn't yet had the second dose which occurs between four to six years old.

That could account for the discrepancy. He was age-appropriately vaccinated, but not yet fully vaccinated.

The first vaccine typically confers full immunity. The second vaccine is a "just in case" for the very small percentage that don't get full immunity from the first. So says the MMR vaccine info sheet I got last week.

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Anonymous wrote:The first child who had measels was unvaccinated. You can read the health alert link from Ffx hospital. It's linked in the general discussion forum.

According to South Riding pediatrics, the child was vaccinated.

I thought the child was four years old, so had the first dose but hadn't yet had the second dose which occurs between four to six years old.

That could account for the discrepancy. He was age-appropriately vaccinated, but not yet fully vaccinated.