Can we be stopped measles?

The United States are Experience the worst Year for measles In over three decades, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states from July 16. The cases were almost as high in 2019 Measles elimination status endangered. Six years ago, health officers were able to stop the spread. But many of the tactics used at that time may not work in the midst of growing public counter reactions against vaccines.

The elimination of measles means that there is no continuous transmission in a country for more than 12 months. This happened almost in the outbreak of 2019, which largely influenced the Orthodox Jewish population in New York City and some surrounding counties. In autumn 2018, US travelers who returned from Israel tested measles. Due to low vaccination rates, the disease spread quickly in narrow communities in narrow communities, especially in children. While the nationwide measles vaccination rate for children of school age was 98 percent in the past school year, the vaccination in schools in schools Was only 77 percent. Because measles are very contagious, a 95 percent vaccination rate is required to protect a community from the disease.

As a result, the majority of measles cases appeared in people from 18 years, Almost 86 percent of which were known that they were not vaccinated. Some of these people developed serious complications, including pneumonia, and almost 8 percent were hospitalized.

The current climb is heated by an outbreak that began in a subordinate Mennonite community in West Texas. Since then, the cases have spread to other counties in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Two children in Texas without underlying conditions and an adult in New Mexico have died of measles this year. Everyone was not vaccinated.

“There are definitely parallels. What we saw in New York was the result of years of misinformation and disinformation in relation to the security of vaccines,” says Neil Vora, Executive Director for the prevention of pandemics in the source coalition and previously in the reaction of the centers for disease control, which reacted to the outbreak of the 2019.

Finally, cases after months of exertion were burned out in New York, which included traditional approaches to public health and political changes at local and state level.

“You have to take the first case seriously because it is like a elevator.

When the disease spread, Barbot realized that the city’s Ministry of Health had to go to the source of the transmission, mainly the Orthodox Jewish schools in affected districts. In cooperation with school administrators, they checked the vaccination factors in order not to be vaccinated or forced children. After an exposure, these children were allowed to visit school and childcare for 21 days, the incubation period for measles. Similar measures were taken in some districts outside the city.

“It cost a lot of time for the employees, a lot of footwork,” says Barbot. In a school, an infectious child led to more than 25 infections with other students and spread further outside of school. She says that the health department was “very involved” to ensure that the schools comply with the quarantine. “