The measles outbreak at Disneyland in considered the worst in California in 15 years, health officials said.
At least 26 patients have been identified in California, Utah, Colorado and Washington state, and more are believed to be out there.
"Disneyland — this is the ideal scenario. This is sort of the perfect storm," Dr. James Cherry, a UCLA expert on pediatric infectious diseases, said in a Times examination of the outbreak. "People go to Disneyland, and they went from all different counties and all different states."
The problem is now spreading as those who visited Disneyland between Dec. 17 and 20 have boarded planes and returned home to far-flung places. In Grays Harbor County, southwest of Seattle, an unvaccinated young woman was diagnosed with measles. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and nearby Snohomish County are also on alert after an unvaccinated California woman in her 20s flew there to see family while contagious.
Utah officials have tracked down more than 380 people who could have come in contact with two vacationers who got the measles and asked many of them to quarantine themselves at home for 21 days. In Colorado, one older adult became infectious after returning home to the Colorado Springs area; it was the first case in El Paso County, where he lives, since 1992.
Officials in California and the nation are scrambling to get ahead of the outbreak, mapping out scenarios and identifying public locations where contagious people have been. Those places include a Ralphs grocery store in San Clemente, a Starbucks in Laguna Beach and the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon.
Long Beach investigators interviewed the city's lone measles patient and put out a public alert for unvaccinated people who visited Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Stater Bros. or Total Wellness Club on East Spring Street in the late morning of Jan. 3.
Controlling measles is difficult because the patient is infectious as soon as coughing and sneezing begins but before the telltale rash appears — first on the head, then spreading to the rest of the body. Patients can be contagious for four days before the rash appears and four days after, said John Holguin, epidemiology program supervisor for Long Beach.
It has been the worst year for measles, both nationwide and in California, since domestic transmission of measles was eliminated in 2000. There were at least 644 cases of measles nationally in 2014, up from 189 in 2013. In California, there were 70 cases last year, up from 18 the previous year.
Copyright © 2015, Los Angeles TimesAnda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Measles outbreak at Disneyland worst in 15 years
Dengan url
http://sehatumbuah.blogspot.com/2015/01/measles-outbreak-at-disneyland-worst-in.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Measles outbreak at Disneyland worst in 15 years
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Measles outbreak at Disneyland worst in 15 years
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar