Posted on 05/28/2015 10:49:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A person infected with measles was at a New Jersey funeral home two times earlier this month, the state Department of Health announced Thursday.
The department confirmed the measles case Thursday, saying the individual may have exposed people at a funeral home in the Fords section of Woodbridge in Middlesex County on May 11 and 14.
Measles is a highly contagious viral illness that can cause serious medical complications. As a result, the department recommends that anyone who visited Flynn and Son Funeral Home, 23 Ford Ave., Fords, on Monday, May 11, between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., and on Thursday, May 14, between 1:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., should contact a health care provider, according to a health department release.
Those who may have come in contact will want to immediately to discuss potential exposure and risk of developing the illness. The individual was unaware they were contagious while visiting the funeral home, according to the release.
Anyone who suspects an exposure is urged to call a health care provider before going to a medical office or emergency room
People exposed at Flynn and Son Funeral Home may develop symptoms as late as June 4. Measles symptoms include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes.
“We urge everyone to check to make sure their vaccinations and family members’ vaccinations are up-to-date on measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine and all other age-appropriate immunizations,” said Health Commissioner Mary E. O’Dowd. “Getting vaccinated not only protects you, it protects others around you who are too young to get the vaccine or can’t receive it for medical reasons. Two doses of measles vaccine are more than 99 percent effective in preventing measles.”
People planning to travel internationally should be sure to visit their health care providers to discuss vaccinations. It is recommended that children 6 through 11 months of age traveling internationally receive a dose of MMR before departure from the United States.
Measles is easily spread through the air when an infected person talks, coughs or sneezes. People can also get sick when they come in contact with mucus or saliva from an infected person.
Anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated or has not had measles is at risk if they are exposed to the virus.
Measles can cause serious complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain) in 20 percent of patients, especially children under 5 and adults older than 20. Measles infection in a pregnant woman can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or a low-birth weight baby.
The department said it is working with Flynn and Son Funeral Home, local health departments, and with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to locate persons potentially exposed at the funeral home.
For more information about measles, contact your health care provider, visit the New Jersey Department of Health web site at http://www.nj.gov/health/cd/measles/geninfo.shtml
Frequently Asked Questions on measles: http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/documents/faq/measles_faq.pdf
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s web site on measles: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/
Infectious disease ping...
Well, at least the dead weren’t infected. :/
Had nothing to do with the wave of ‘immigration’ nor the big push lately for vaccinations I’m sure. Obviously no connection with any combo of those events at all.
I’ve had the measles at least twice. Yes, it can have serious effects. But, it doesn .... oh, wait, yes, I am dead. I said so yesterday.
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Thanks for the ping!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Wonderful, an awesome victory for anti-vaxxers!
Measles is contagious before symptoms appear, and it is transmitted through the air. It remains airborne for up to 2 hours after a contagious person has been in the area, and it can transmit to people who are physically distant from the ill person.
Measles has a chance—about 1 in 300-500—of killing during the course of the illness, and another ~1 in 10,000 chance of killing between 7 to 10 years after the illness. It can also leave survivors deaf or mentally disabled. The death rate would be higher, but we have very good medical care, so the 1 in 5 who end up hospitalized because of measles usually survive, where they would have died before the advent of modern evidence-based-medicine. Measles has a very high death rate in countries without modern medicine.
In addition to the direct consequences of measles, recent research has shown that measles doubles the rate of death from all infectious disease for approximately 2 years after recovery from measles. When measles vaccination programs were implemented, public health officials noticed that the death rate from all infectious disease dropped by about half, but only recently have researchers begun to systematically explore why and started to come up with answers. Measles suppresses the immune system. Not only that, but it erases existing immunities to diseases. So, even if a child has been fully immunized against every other vaccine preventable disease, those immunizations are all negated if that child catches measles.
Isn’t measles great? /s
The thing is, measles is one of the handful of diseases that is possible to eliminate, forever. That is because measles does not infect animals, so when it is eliminated from people, it is gone forever. We can achieve this by immunizing everyone until there are no longer non-immune people to host the virus. And then no one will ever need to receive measles vaccine again.
Rinderpest is a related virus that used to infect animals. Through a diligent vaccination and surveillance program, the last case of Rinderpest occurred in 2001, and in 2011, the disease was officially declared eradicated.
/jump off soapbox
For all we know, it was brought in by an illegal alien. There seem to be a lot of those running around of late.
That would require a border where everyones medical records were checked and confirmed.
what’s with all the measles panic? When I was a kid, we all got measles, and none of us were very sick with it. Just a nuisance disease. Then my son got measles, same deal, an itchy inconvenience but he was toddling all over the house in a perfectly good mood.
Along came measles shots. Got my daughter inoculated. That shot made her sicker than she had ever been before or since.
Which lead to a lifetime of vaccine avoidance for me. I’m healthy as a horse and never come down with anything. Plus, I’m rather an old girl, one would reasonably expect more health problems than I’ve had.
But now, a case of measles causes HEADLINES. BigPharma is getting very rich on vaccines which I consider needless and perhaps even dangerous. MEDIA is complicit in creating faux STATE OF EMERGENCY/
Naw, just a yellow shot record would do, at least for legal travelers. But we do need to seal the border and remove the incentives for illegals to enter--oh, and stop the human trafficking, as well.
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