Category: Measles
PUBLIC HEALTH MONITORING MEASLES EXPOSURE AMONG INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS VISITING SEATTLE
Last week that a group of international travelers visiting Seattle were exposed to an individual with measles prior to arriving in Seattle. Currently, there are no cases of measles among the group (or within King County), but Public Health — Seattle & King County is monitoring the situation closely.
NEW CASE OF MEASLES IN KING COUNTY
The individual was at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Providence Swedish First Hill while infectious. Anyone who was at these locations within the time span that this person passed through may have been exposed to measles.
Child Vaccination Rates, Already Down Because of COVID, Fall Again
Child vaccination rates dipped into dangerous territory during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were shuttered, and most doctors were only seeing emergency patients. But instead of recovering after schools reopened in 2021, those historically low rates worsened. Experts fear that the skepticism of science and distrust of government that flared up during the pandemic are contributing to the decrease.
Child vaccination rates drop in Washington state
Providers in Washington’s Childhood Vaccine Program report they give 30% fewer vaccines to 0-18 year olds in March than they usually do.
Should unvaccinated people be allowed to fly?
It’s hard to conceive a more efficient way to spread infectious disease than flying millions of people around the world in crowded airplanes.
Local coronavirus response draws on lessons from Washington’s measles outbreak
Case in Snohomish grabbed national headlines, but it didn’t rattle the local health workers who had recently geared up to handle another infectious disease.
Local stories in the news
Seattle Children’s class action lawsuit expands. Measles scared led Seattle to crackdown on vaccines. Is electric scooter carnage coming to Seattle soon?
How does the Washington state’s new immunization law affect you?
Washington no longer allows personal or philosophical exemptions to the requirement that students get theMMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.
If you need to provide documentation of measles immunity, how do you obtain it?
How to avoid missing school or work if you’re exposed to the measles
New case of measles in King County
Case visited locations in Kenmore and Seattle while contagious. This brings the total to ten measles cases in King County residents since the beginning of May
Two New Cases of Measles in King County
These two cases brings the total to nine measles cases in King County residents since the beginning of May.
Measles and cancer patients. What to do?
Measles is worrisome to cancer patients because those receiving chemotherapy or recovering from a transplant may have weakened immunity.
New case of measles in King County
While contagious, the patient was in Fred Meyer in Kent and the Seattle Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. The case, a child, remains hospitalized.
Public health departments regularly employ traditional shoe-leather detective work to track and control outbreaks.
US Measles Cases Highest Since 1992
If this year’s outbreaks continue through summer and fall, the United States may lose its measles elimination status.