IMPORTANT
SLCC Measles Exposure Notice
On April 11th, 2011 you were potentially exposed to a person who was infectious with measles. This exposure occurred at the Nicholas Kristof presentation, held at the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) South City Campus.
In an effort to help reduce the possibility of spreading the measles to others, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is requesting that you as a recipient of this email contact the Utah Department of Health at 801-538-6191 if you begin experience signs and symptoms of measles.
Signs of symptoms of measles include: (People generally become ill from measles 7-18 days after exposure to the virus)
Fever of 101 degrees or higher
Cough
Runny nose
Red, watery eyes
Rash (The rash usually occurs about 14 days after exposure and begins at the hairline and spreads to cover the face, trunk and arms.)
Sensitivity to light (symptom for some people)
Additional important information regarding measles:
If you develop symptoms of measles, please contact your healthcare provider immediately. Call ahead before visiting your healthcare provider or any medical facility so precautions can be taken to avoid potential exposure to other patients.
Measles is very contagious, 90% of people exposed to measles who have not been vaccinated against measles will get measles.
Measles is spread by close contact with an infected person. Just being in the same room as an infected person can be enough for a person to get infected with measles, even after the infected person has left the room. The measles virus can live on surfaces for up to 2 hours.
If you have never received a MMR vaccine or only one dose of the MMR vaccine it is strongly recommended a first or second dose of MMR vaccine immediately.
If there are people in your home who are not completely immunized, it is strongly recommended that they receive their first or second dose of MMR immediately.
If you have had prior measles illness you are protected and need not do anything.
Additional information on measles can be found at www.cdc.gov/measles
Utah Department of Health
Office of Epidemiology
PO Box 142104
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-2104
801.538.6191
801.538.9923 (fax)
To report a disease or outbreak
1-888-EPI-UTAH
This outbreak coincides with an outbreak on the eastside of Salt Lake County in the Granite School District. According to a study outlined in the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics parents who are most likely to skip vaccines are mothers who are educated, white, with above average incomes. The Oprah generation who get their medical advise from Dr. Oz, Deepak Choprah, and Dr. Phil. The same parents who bought off on the Wakefield study and who continue to practice this dangerous abstinence.
Because of the MMR vaccine learning and physical disabilities such as congenital and acquired deafness have a much lower incidence. If you are a teen or young mother who was not immunized and you get rubella there is a 60% likelihood your child will be deaf. If your infant gets the measles there in a likelihood they will suffer from hearing loss. There is NO chance they will get autism. None. ZERO.
Fundamental thinking is bad for humans with or without a god! If you deny your child vaccines against childhood diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio and pertussis you should not only not be allowed to keep your children but you should be voted off the island as well. You have no business endangering your children or the herd. In exercising your right to abstain you impair their right to life and happiness.
As one atheist to another to another, Amen! Or, maybe, just, "Well spoken, well said".
ReplyDeleteamen. People who don't vaccinate need to look through their family history and see how many of their ancestors died due to childhood illness. We live in a wonderful time where most kids make it to adulthood our ancestors weren't so lucky.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad people are seeing through the anti-vaccination scares. Vaccines have kept dangerous diseases at bay and saved countless lives.
ReplyDeleteThe current generation of parents is too young to remember the measles outbreak that took place in the mid-1960's. My HS basketball coach had a deaf daughter, and one of the ward members had a son who was deaf and severely learning-disabled, to the point they eventually had to institutionalize him. The women in both cases had been exposed to measles while pregnant.
ReplyDeleteTen years ago, all the websites and online communities for families of autistic children served mainly as anti-vaccination alarmist blogs; today the AAS website is much more professional and balanced in its approach, but unfortunately the damage has been done.
My chiropractor is anti-vax (aren't they all?). His reasons? "None of my kids was ever vaccinated and they never had polio or measles." My retort: "That's because 95% of their classmates in school WERE vaccinated!"
The scary stat here is that 90% of un-vaccinated humans will get the disease when exposed. I take a hard line stance on this issue. If you are not vaccinated you don't go to public school and you don't associate with crowds of humans in social settings. If your are not vaccinated you might as well be the 'boy in the bubble'.... not for your protection but for ours!
ReplyDeleteI had the measles when I was a kid. It was a mild case. We were on the edge of the vaccine generation. I have since had two doses of MMR. I have also worked with the developmentally disabled have seen first hand what happens when disease infects the mother while she is pregnant.
My children are vaccinated. I have met my obligation to the community in that regard!