Measles Erupts in Florida School Where 11 Percent of Kids are Unvaccinated | Drudge Retort

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Measles Erupts in Florida School Where 11 Percent of Kids are Unvaccinated

Broward County Health Department: The Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) is investigating multiple cases of measles that have occurred at an elementary school in Weston, Florida. DOH-Broward is continuously working with all partners, including Broward County Public Schools and local hospitals, to identify contacts that are at risk of transmission. Health care providers in the area
have been notified. Those that have received the full series of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) immunization are 98% protected and are highly unlikely to contract measles. Measles is highly contagious and can remain infectious in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours, with over a 90% contraction rate among susceptible contacts. Susceptible contacts at risk include those that are immunocompromised and/or those who have not received a full series of the MMR immunization. Based on exposure timeframe, DOH-Broward is identifying susceptible contacts that
may be candidates for post-exposure prophylaxis through MMR or immunoglobulin.

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Yes, MAGA. This is your fault. You are going to be responsible for some American kid, in the freaking year 2024, to die from measles. Good job.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2024-02-20 11:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

More from the cited article...

... Measles symptoms typically begin around eight to 14 days after exposure, but the disease can incubate for up to 21 days. The symptoms begin as a high fever, runny nose, red and watery eyes, and a cough before the telltale rash develops.

Infected people can be contagious from four days before the rash develops through four days after the rash appears, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people with measles are hospitalized, the CDC adds, while 1 in 20 infected children develop pneumonia and up to 3 in 1,000 children die of the infection. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-20 11:49 AM | Reply

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-02-20 11:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is not just MAGA. There has been a vocal anti-measles group for several years, members have included the whole polical specturm.

#4 | Posted by mattm at 2024-02-20 12:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It started with Wakefield publishing his BS paper around 2000 where he claimed vaccines, especially MMR, cause autism.

For most of the time since, anti-vaxx has been relegated to religious fundamentalists and hippy dippy libs on the coasts who kept to their little homeschooled selves.

MAGA jumping on the bandwagon has made the levels of hesitancy and non-uptake explode.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-20 12:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Like Syphilis, many of us thought we would never see a case. Again a focus in medical training.

#6 | Posted by mattm at 2024-02-20 12:41 PM | Reply

I hope they are checking the vaxtatus of the migratory population

#7 | Posted by libs_of_dr at 2024-02-20 01:04 PM | Reply

I get the knee jerk reaction about being unvaccinated,but as we should now know vaccines aren't binary thing.

Measles outbreak in a vaccinated school population: epidemiology, chains of transmission and the role of vaccine failures

Vaccine failures among apparently adequately vaccinated individuals were sources of infection for at least 48 per cent of the cases in the outbreak.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-20 01:11 PM | Reply

Hmmm. Weston, eh? That's not a home for boat people and other illegals, but well-to-do white folks. I'm sure that Dr. Ladapo, that friendly black man and lackey to Bootsy DeSantis, will have this whole vaccine thingy under control before too many Florida children get sick for freedom and personal choice...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2024-02-20 01:13 PM | Reply

@#8 ... as we should now know vaccines aren't binary thing. ...

So, your current alias' point seems to be that sometimes vaccinations might fail.

From the article cited in #8

... The outbreak subsided spontaneously after four generations of illness in the school and demonstrates that when measles is introduced in a highly vaccinated population, vaccine failures may play some role in transmission but that such transmission is not usually sustained. ...

So, the vaccines did appear to work in reducing the subsequent transmissions.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-20 01:15 PM | Reply

current alias' point seems to be that sometimes vaccinations might fail.
- gaslighter

LMAO

This is what I mean by binary thinking on vaccines.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-20 01:22 PM | Reply

whole vaccine thingy under control before too many Florida.
- cat dog

It happened in CA high school with 98% vaccination rate.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-20 01:24 PM | Reply

IOW for the binary thinkers like gaslighter.

Vaccines are great,but they aren't perfect.

Outbreaks will occur.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-20 01:26 PM | Reply

This is not just MAGA. There has been a vocal anti-measles group for several years, members have included the whole polical specturm.
#4 | POSTED BY MATTM

True, but the relevance of MAGA is that MAGA made it mainstream.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 01:27 PM | Reply

@#12 ... It happened in CA high school with 98% vaccination rate. ...

And, as the article your current alias cites in #8 notes, "... vaccine failures may play some role in transmission but that such transmission is not usually sustained. ..."

The vaccinations did appear to have some positive effect, i.e., in reducing subsequent transmission.

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-20 01:28 PM | Reply

Insurance companies would be saving so much money right now, if they could refuse to cover medical expenses for patients who refused vaccinations.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-20 01:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Yep.
They should, too.

#17 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-20 01:38 PM | Reply

Vaccines are great,but they aren't perfect.

Outbreaks will occur.

#13 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Define "outbreaks".

In the year 2000 measles was declared eliminated in the US.

In 2000, a provisional total of 86 confirmed measles cases were reported to CDC by state and local health departments, representing a record low and a 14% decrease from the 100 cases reported in each of the previous 2 years.

The concern then was how to prevent cases from coming in from overseas. That's why we all needed to be vaccinated if possible.

In 2019, more than 1200 cases of measles were reported in the United States, the highest number in decades.

Guess who was President then? Coincidence? I think not.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-20 01:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Just another way that Republicans are happy to watch children die.

Maybe they'll start selling ammunition coated with the measles virus so the kids that survive school shootings will die of their favorite 19th century disease instead.

#19 | Posted by qcp at 2024-02-20 02:31 PM | Reply

Nothing to see here. Just some chlorine in the gene pool.

#20 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-20 03:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We're all ------ if whatever Steve Bannon has goes airborne.

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-02-21 07:15 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Polio is making a comeback thanks to anti-vaxx morons.

Take a stroll in a graveyard and you can see the number of grave markers for children before the 1950s that died of this disease.

We're all ------ if whatever Steve Bannon has goes airborne.

He looks like gout caught gout.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-21 10:19 AM | Reply

Polio is making a comeback thanks to anti-vaxx morons. Link?
Considered irredicated in the US. Still quite rare in Pakistan and Afganistan, the remaining reservoirs for free polio.

#23 | Posted by mattm at 2024-02-21 10:40 AM | Reply

There was an outbreak in NY at the end of 2022. A Hasidic Jew with no known travel history tested positive and subsequent wastewater analysis was positive for the virus.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-21 10:56 AM | Reply

Thank JPW, any other confirmed cases in the US or just the one?

#25 | Posted by mattm at 2024-02-21 11:07 AM | Reply

That's just the one I remembered off the top of my head, mostly because the lack of travel in a symptomatic case and wastewater signal suggested localized spread.

Not quite as dire as initially described, but it has popped up.

#26 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-21 11:26 AM | Reply

Insurance companies would be saving so much money right now, if they could refuse to cover medical expenses for patients who refused vaccinations.

Directly violates ObamaCare regarding prior conditions. Most of us don't want to back slide on the few gains that have been made.

#27 | Posted by mattm at 2024-02-22 10:06 AM | Reply

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