Measles: this is the latest state of the AC epidemic

Nearly 700 students and staff members from UCLA and Cal State, in the state of Los Angeles, remain in quarantine on Saturday after the Los Angeles County Public Health Department announced that they had may have been exposed to measles. Quarantine comes in the midst of the country's largest measles outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday at the White House that Americans "must be vaccinated" and that vaccinations are "so important."

The current number of confirmed measles cases is around 700, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 300 of these cases are linked to an outbreak in Brooklyn and Queens, affecting mainly members of the Orthodox Jewish community. In Rockland County, also in New York, 201 cases were confirmed by Friday.

The quarantine at UCLA was set up on Monday in response to a contagious student who attended classes on April 2, 4 and 9, according to a message from Chancellor Gene Block. Eight faculty members and 119 students were initially quarantined, but this number has since been significantly reduced. Thirty students and employees remain in quarantine.

According to a statement from the university, 106 staff members and 550 students are still quarantined after the entrance of a person with measles in the campus library. The potential exposure occurred on April 11 between 11 am and 3 pm at the Library of the North, says the communique. The L.A. County Public Health Department stated that there was currently no risk of measles in the library.

Friday afternoon, 110 students and 21 staff members had been released from quarantine, according to the latest release from the university. Exposed people will remain in quarantine, they will be able to prove their immunity with the help of medical records and will not be susceptible to contracting the disease.

The last in California

Twenty-eight adults and 10 children were diagnosed with measles in California this year, including three confirmed cases in Sacramento County.

The third case of Sacramento County was confirmed on April 24th. They all belonged to the same family and were the first confirmed cases of measles in the county since 2012. Sacramento County health officials said anyone potentially exposed to the virus was informed, many people who could be, well that they concluded after an investigation that there was minimal exposure to the public.

Los Angeles County has recorded a total of six cases in 2019, while Placer and Sacramento have reported three cases, according to the state's Department of Public Health. The counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara both had four cases and San Francisco County reported one. Counties of Butte, Calaveras, Shasta and Tehama combine 16 cases.

According to the CRPD, the last major measles outbreak occurred between December 2014 and April 2015 in connection with Disneyland. At least 131 Californians were infected and the epidemic spread to six other states, as well as in Mexico and Canada.

According to the Ministry of Public Health, 95.1% of kindergarten children have received all the necessary vaccinations, but this number may not exceed 80% in some schools. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national coverage of children aged 19 to 35 months was 92.7% in 2017.

According to the most recent data, less than 7% of public and private schools in the Sacramento region reported measles immunization rates of less than 90% by 2018.

There have been no measles cases in Yolo County, but UC Davis is encouraging its university community to get vaccinated to help prevent the spread of measles, said Melissa Lutz University spokeswoman Blouin. For more information, including how to get vaccinated on campus, students are invited to call the Health and Student Advisory Service at 530-752-2349, according to the release.

The officials of the State of Sacramento did not respond to several requests for comment.

The anti-vaccination movement in California

The increase in the number of measles cases is largely the result of the anti-vaccine movement. The misinformation that links vaccines to autism and disease has led some parents to take up activist positions against vaccines. But the current epidemic shows that vaccines are more effective when the vast majority of the community is vaccinated.

Not getting vaccinated exposes vulnerable groups, such as babies too young to be vaccinated or patients with autoimmune diseases, to an otherwise preventable disease, according to the CDC.

Hundreds of family members, doctors, alternative health care practitioners, members of parenting groups and religious groups gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to protest a bill that makes it more difficult avoidance of vaccinations.

Senate Bill 276, drafted by Senator Richard Pan of the State of D-Sacramento, would authorize the granting of vaccine exemptions to public health officials in the United States. State. Pan, who is a doctor, said doctors give unnecessary exemptions.

Opposition to the bill said the bill would destroy the "parent-physician relationship" by giving the government a hand in medical treatment, but the bill was passed by 6 votes to 2 on Wednesday, after nearly six hours of testimony and discussion.

Background on measles

The measles vaccine usually comes in two doses, according to the CDC. The vaccine is more commonly referred to as MMR because the vaccine also includes mumps and rubella vaccines, or MMRV, which also covers chickenpox, which is chickenpox.

The CDC recommends that all children receive two doses of MMR vaccine, one at 12 to 15 months of age and the other between 4 and 6 years of age. Students who have never been vaccinated should receive two doses of MMR, spaced at least 28 days, according to the CDC. Unvaccinated adults should receive at least one dose.

Current exemptions for MMR include life-threatening allergies, pregnancy or a weakened immune system due to autoimmune conditions or medical treatments such as chemotherapy, according to the CDC.

According to the CDC, the symptoms of measles begin with a high fever, a cough and watery teary eyes. Two or three days after the first symptoms appear, tiny white spots can appear inside the mouth and three to five days after the onset of symptoms, a rash occurs. When the rash appears, the patient's fever tends to reach more than 104.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world, according to the World Health Organization. While the number of deaths from measles in the world has decreased by 84% worldwide between 2000 and 2016, 110,000 people have died from a preventable disease in 2017. According to the WHO, there is no treatment for measles.