Posted on 05/11/2016 5:20:36 AM PDT by upchuck
“The first public place where there was a public exposure potentially [to measles] was the Masjid Al-Noor Mosque on April 15,” Dr. Alisa Haushalter, Director of the Shelby County Health Department, tells Breitbart News.
“The mosque is one location we know that individuals who were infectious were during their infectious period, but that’s not necessarily where the first case occurred. I don’t want you to draw conclusions without sufficient information,” she added.
Haushalter acknowledged, however, that the measles outbreak could have originated with an unvaccinated for measles adult or child brought to Tennessee under the federal refugee resettlement program, something she called “a possibility amongst many.”
There had been no reported cases of measles in Shelby County for the previous 24 months, according to a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Health. “There have been nine previous cases of measles in the entire state of Tennessee in the past 12 years,” WREG reported.
The Shelby County Health Department first notified the public of a measles outbreak on Friday morning, April 22, reporting two confirmed cases, an adult and a child.
“We take the testing [of patients for measles] to the state lab then to CDC. We went public as soon as we received the confirmation,” spokesperson Elizabeth Hart tells Breitbart News.
As of May 10, the number of reported cases of measles in Memphis has increased to seven.
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Ha! Good one!
Has Memphis been the lucky recipient of “refugees” from Syria?
Human vectors make very good dissemination devices for contagious diseases.
Highly probable.
Dear neo,
I agree, as well as them ol’ blankets from days gone by.
Blankets aren’t quite so mobile and the R-naught for measles is about three times what it is for smallpox.
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