UGH! They will do ANYTHING to push the MMR

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This is just sad! What ever happened to wanting your child to get the measles so

they gain lifelong real immunity.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2011/02/health_experts_trying_t\

o_determine_if_infected_baby_spread_measles_in_portland_metro_area.html

Local, regional and federal health officials are trying to determine whether a

County infant who flew home to Vancouver on Sunday may have spread measles

to others in the area at Portland International Airport and two medical offices.

and Multnomah county infectious disease experts, along with

representatives of the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, met on a

conference call to discuss the risk of transmission from a 7-month-old boy who

was exposed to the disease while outside the United States.

The baby, traveling with his family, developed the telltale red measles rash

while flying for more than 20 hours from India to Portland after a layover in

San Francisco, said Dr. Oxman, health officer for Multnomah, Clackamas and

Washington counties.

By the time the boy was on the final leg of the journey home, on Alaska Air

flight 2614 (operated by Horizon), he may have been coughing and sneezing -- the

primary way the highly contagious airborne disease is transmitted.

The next day, the child visited two medical facilities in Vancouver on

Valentine's Day: the Evergreen Pediatric Clinic between 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. and

the pharmacy or outpatient lab at the Southwest Washington Medical Center

between 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., health officials said.

" We're contacting individuals who were possibly or likely affected, maybe 108

were exposed at the clinic, " said Dr. Vines, County's deputy

health officer.

Those people are urged to get vaccinated by Thursday evening, she said.

Doctor's offices -- typically small, close quarters -- are common locations

where people contract measles. An uninfected person can get the disease simply

by breathing the air in a room where an infected person has been, and the virus

can survive in the air for two hours, Oxman said.

Planes with heavily circulated air, wide open airports, malls and grocery stores

are far less likely sites of transmission, he said.

The baby's swift passage from the A concourse to the airport exit make it

unlikely that anyone would have been exposed to measles at PDX, Oxman added.

" It's low risk in this particular situation because of our belief that our

infected person got off the plane and left the airport directly within 10 to 15

minutes, " Oxman said.

Measles is a potentially serious disease characterized by a rash, fever and one

or more of the following symptoms: cough, conjunctivitis, sneezing, nasal

congestion and nasal discharge, said Dr. Alan Melnick with County Public

Health.

[Guest guest]

This is just sad! What ever happened to wanting your child to get the measles so

they gain lifelong real immunity.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2011/02/health_experts_trying_t\

o_determine_if_infected_baby_spread_measles_in_portland_metro_area.html

Local, regional and federal health officials are trying to determine whether a

County infant who flew home to Vancouver on Sunday may have spread measles

to others in the area at Portland International Airport and two medical offices.

and Multnomah county infectious disease experts, along with

representatives of the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, met on a

conference call to discuss the risk of transmission from a 7-month-old boy who

was exposed to the disease while outside the United States.

The baby, traveling with his family, developed the telltale red measles rash

while flying for more than 20 hours from India to Portland after a layover in

San Francisco, said Dr. Oxman, health officer for Multnomah, Clackamas and

Washington counties.

By the time the boy was on the final leg of the journey home, on Alaska Air

flight 2614 (operated by Horizon), he may have been coughing and sneezing -- the

primary way the highly contagious airborne disease is transmitted.

The next day, the child visited two medical facilities in Vancouver on

Valentine's Day: the Evergreen Pediatric Clinic between 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. and

the pharmacy or outpatient lab at the Southwest Washington Medical Center

between 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., health officials said.

" We're contacting individuals who were possibly or likely affected, maybe 108

were exposed at the clinic, " said Dr. Vines, County's deputy

health officer.

Those people are urged to get vaccinated by Thursday evening, she said.

Doctor's offices -- typically small, close quarters -- are common locations

where people contract measles. An uninfected person can get the disease simply

by breathing the air in a room where an infected person has been, and the virus

can survive in the air for two hours, Oxman said.

Planes with heavily circulated air, wide open airports, malls and grocery stores

are far less likely sites of transmission, he said.

The baby's swift passage from the A concourse to the airport exit make it

unlikely that anyone would have been exposed to measles at PDX, Oxman added.

" It's low risk in this particular situation because of our belief that our

infected person got off the plane and left the airport directly within 10 to 15

minutes, " Oxman said.

Measles is a potentially serious disease characterized by a rash, fever and one

or more of the following symptoms: cough, conjunctivitis, sneezing, nasal

congestion and nasal discharge, said Dr. Alan Melnick with County Public

Health.