Posted on 05/24/2011 1:37:10 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa
A confirmed case of measles has occurred in a Dallas County resident. This situation is being treated as a public health emergency because measles spreads easily and can cause serious illness and death.
Local public health officials in Dallas and Polk counties are working with the Iowa Dept. of Public Health (IDPH) to determine who this individual may have exposed to measles and are at risk of becoming ill.
Any individuals who visited the following locations at the listed times should check to make sure they have received two MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccines. Those older than their mid-50s and know that they had measles as a child do not need to be vaccinated. If you have been at these places during these times and have not received two doses of MMR (or are not sure if you have received two MMRs), you should contact your county health department or health care provider to be vaccinated.
May 11
American Airlines Flight AA3965
Departed Chicago O’Hare: 11:55 a.m.
Arrived Des Moines International Airport: 1:05 p.m.
Des Moines International Airport - main terminal and baggage area
1:00 to 3:45 p.m.
May 14
Mercy Central Pediatric Clinic
330 Laurel St, Ste 2100, Des Moines Iowa
10:00 a.m. to close (offices closed at 2:00 p.m.)
Mercy Medical Center - Main Entrance, including waiting room, registration, outpatient testing and blood draw station areas
1111 6th Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
The symptoms of measles include any or all of the following: fever, cough, red/pink eyes, runny nose and a rash. Anyone, regardless of age, who has not had measles or has not adequately responded to two doses of MMR (less than one percent), can get measles if exposed. Measles can cause serious illness, pneumonia, deafness, and brain inflammation. Two to three people out of 1,000 who get measles die from the disease. It is easily spread through the air and there is no treatment for the illness, so prevention is critical.
If you were at the places during the times listed above and have any symptoms consistent with measles, call your health care provider immediately and arrange to be seen safely. Do not go to the doctor’s office, ER, local public health agency, or a walk-in clinic until arrangements are made to be seen by your health care provider in a place and manner that will not potentially expose others to measles. Until arrangements are made, stay home; do not go into any public places.
“All Iowans should check their personal and family immunization records to make sure their measles vaccinations are up-to-date,” said IDPH Medical Director, Dr. Patricia Quinlisk. “To be fully vaccinated, an individual should have had two doses of the measles vaccine, or have had measles in the past.”
We are not talking about quarantines which I absolutely honor, we are talking about inoculations....or at least I was. Perhaps you are on a WHOLE different level.
Like I said, Life is fatal. So sue me.
I never said anything about murdering people. You are building a strawman and a very flimsy one at that.
That is evil and you know it.
In the USA, Doctors kill more people each year than communicable diseases. I guess they are evil and so are you for JUSTIFYING it.
I’m done talking to you.
Then entire generation that lived before the vaccine should be blind then.. the pharmaceutical companies love vaccines.. money in the bank for them and a diminished immune response for the the generations that were "spared" exercising it with childhood illnesses
There are more people that will die or be injured in a car accidents or skiing or on a motorcycle ..maybe we should outlaw cars, skis and motorcycles.. .. maybe we could make a nice sterile bubble for men to live in ??
Generations made it through whooping cough, mumps, measles , chicken pox and today have natural life long immunity.. that is against having a man made immunity that will at some point stop and leave the adult..possible a pregnant mother.. vulnerable to the disease..
BTW I am not a member of a "herd"
Currently, according to a vast number of studies reported on the internet, measles is being blamed for retinal damage of all kinds, including detachment.
You didn't know that?
It wasn't an old wives tale that measles damaged eyes!
We do lots of things together ~ hunting being one. You get more game that way.
BTW, the vaccines EXERCISE your immune system ~ they don't just artificially create a defense. They actually cause the creation of antibodies that destroy the vaccine, but they also destroy the virus since it will have attachment points in common with the vaccine materials.
We also regulate the devil out of cars, skies, motorcycles and even sterile bubbles. We should always beware of assigning civil rights to a virus ~ millions die needlessly when that happens.
LOL LOL In a group of 100 people over 60 most likely 75% or more have had measles and they are not all using white canes..
There are many causes for detached retinas and measles is not one of them .... measles are a risk to the eyes of an unborn baby.. years ago that rarely happened because most women had measles as a child.. but with artificial immunity that has worn off the unborn babies of 20 somethings are at greater not less risk today
For instance, measles can cause a keratitis, inflammation of the cornea, that can result in scarring and opacities of the cornea.
Measles can cause a uveitis, inflammation of the internal structures of the eye, also resulting in loss of vision.
In severe cases, measles can cause an encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, that can lead to blindness and even death.
You are hanging your hat on the fact that the term "measles blindness" is restricted to damage to the cornea ALTHOUGH we knew measles can cause damage to the inner wall of the eye to which the retina is attached. That, in turn, can lead in later years to premature aging of those tissues, and with that, blood leaking in between the retina and the eye wall.
There are numerous other names for all sorts of eye injuries that can ultimately result in blindness.
http://www.nei.nih.gov/eyedata/pbd_tables.asp will provide you with the current information regarding low vision and blindness in the United States by age group. Your 75% of old folks are definitely suffering and by the time you are 80 YOU ARE DOOMED!
>>The husband was just getting a fledgling business started when the kids got chicken pox, he got it from them and almost died.<<
That’s very sad but it’s also an anomaly. There are not “often” problems, but there is a risk associated with them. The problems are overblown. The poor dad must have missed out on chicken pox as a child. Pity.
I belong to five homeschooling groups, all of which do pox parties. I’m talking hundreds of families including military families. None of them have ever had a near death experience from chicken pox.
I vaccinated my girls but if I had to do it all over again, I would do the pox party.
I thought measles was one of those things, like smallpox, thats been pretty much eradicated. That being said I had chickenpox as a kid but never got the measles, and Im 40 now.. so lets hope it doesnt start spreading everywhere.
In most cases, that is true, but measles can cause permanent damage and sometimes even kill. I know a child who is deaf due to a case of measles.
If a pregnant woman contracts German measles, it can kill the baby. There was even an Agatha Christie mystery based on this.
“I disagree with you. Making laws that require people to immunize children against innocuous diseases like Chicken Pox has led to adults who were never exposed, thus opening them up to a more devastating disease in adulthood.
These enforced inoculations were the beginning of the citizens of the US giving away our freedoms over our own bodies, and our own health and healthcare. Welcome to Obamaworld.”
The scourge of conservatism is ignorance.
< ‘______we know the Autism connection was totally faked.’>
Maybe yes, maybe no.
While everyone was looking at a vaccine/Autism connection (which could yet come up with a different scenario), other negatives/dangers about vaccines were pushed to the background.
No, they didn't. I had them in the early 60s then the German measles a couple years later. Maybe it was due to a change in quarantine processes or something.
The flu is highly contagious and kills people as well. Should every case of the flu be a health emergency?
“Maybe it was due to a change in quarantine processes or something.”
I guess so. I had them ten years earlier.
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