Israeli flight attendant slips into coma after contracting the virus

An Israeli flight attendant fell into a coma after contracting measles, CNN reported. El Al (the 43-year-old Israeli airline) employee has an inflamed brain, which is known to be a life-threatening complication of measles. It is thought that this woman contracted the virus in New York, Israel or during a flight between two countries. "She has been in deep coma for 10 days and we now hope that everything will be fine," said Dr. Itamar Grotto, Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health. She was admitted to the hospital on March 31 with fever and can only breathe with a respirator. Officials did not think it was transmitting the virus to passengers on flights. According to CNN, the authorities believe that the woman received a measles vaccine in her childhood, but that she became ill because of the imperfect effectiveness of this vaccine. Between March 2018 and April 2019, there were more than 3,000 cases of measles in Israel and 1,000 cases in the United States during the same period.