Health officials said Friday nearly 700 people from two Los Angeles universities were ordered to stay at home because they may have been in contact this month with two measles patients.
At one point, about 1,700 people were under a quarantine order, but on Friday the health authorities had eliminated more than 1,000 people who had presented proof of vaccination, health officials said. Los Angeles County Public Lecture at a Press Conference.
The largest number of people actively quarantined, 628, was connected to Cal State, Los Angeles, where a single patient with measles has created hundreds of possible exposures by visiting a campus library, announced managers. This number includes at least 106 staff members, according to the university.
"We also issued a general order asking anyone at the library to quarantine on 11/11, to warn the health services and to establish that they were immune before they left. "Exposing to the public," said Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County Public Health Director.
853 students and seven faculty members may have been exposed to a measles patient throughout the city of UCLA, she said. Health officials have verified the immunization of hundreds of people, leaving 45 students and a quarantined faculty member Friday, Ferrer said.
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A child was vaccinated against measles by a family doctor on April 16, 2018 in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
Measles still leaves young victims in Romania, where nearly 40 children have died in an epidemic, many of which accuse parents of being misled by alarmist stories that it is dangerous to vaccinate them. About 12,000 people have contracted measles since the end of 2016 in the second poorest country in the European Union, of which 46 have died. Of the deaths, 39 were children under three years old who had not yet been vaccinated, making Romania one of the countries most affected by the measles epidemic in Europe. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel MIHAILESCU (The photo credit should read: DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP / Getty Images)
A family doctor is preparing a measles vaccine during a consultation held on April 16, 2018 in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. – Measles still has young lives in Romania, where nearly 40 children died in an epidemic, many of which accused parents of being misled by alarmist stories that it is dangerous to vaccinate them. About 12,000 people have contracted measles since the end of 2016 in the second poorest country in the European Union, of which 46 have died. Of the deaths, 39 were children under three years old who had not yet been vaccinated, making Romania one of the countries most affected by the measles epidemic in Europe. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP) (The photo credit should read: DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP / Getty Images)
A nurse was seen vaccinating schoolchildren at her school in Lhokseumawe on August 4, 2018 in Aceh, Indonesia. Vaccination against measles and rubella for Indonesian schoolchildren is part of the Indonesian government's health program aimed at ensuring the physical immunity of two dangerous diseases, rubella and measles among Indonesian children. (Photo by Fachrul Reza / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Artists dressed in superhero costumes comfort a primary school student while she receives a German measles vaccine, also called rubella, in Pekanbaru, Riau province, on August 1, 2018, as part of the program. health of Indonesian governments to fight against childhood diseases. (Photo by WAHYUDI / AFP) (Photo credit should match WAHYUDI / AFP / Getty Images)
ALEPPO, SYRIA – APRIL 17: A Syrian child is vaccinated during the measles campaign in the Al-Bab district of Aleppo, Syria, on April 17, 2018. Children fled from the Eastern Ghouta Duma after the alleged chemical attack of the Assad regime forces, April 7, 2018. receive the measles vaccine Al-Bab district of Aleppo. (Photo by Omer Alven / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)
A Venezuelan woman is vaccinated against measles in Cucuta, Colombia, on March 21, 2018, at the Simon Bolivar International Brigade, on the border with Venezuela. / AFP PHOTO / Schneyder Mendoza (The photo credit is SCHNEYDER MENDOZA / AFP / Getty Images)
The Venezuelan, Yan Manuel, receives free measles vaccine offered by a volunteer, after presenting his identity card at the border of Pacaraima, in the state of Roraima, Brazil, on August 19, 2018. REUTERS / Nacho Doce
A member of the Free Revolutionary Police carried out a measles vaccine inspection in the Idlib countryside in the south of the country on 17 September 2014. Fifteen children died after being vaccinated against measles in the north of the country. Syria, stopping the program, said Wednesday humanitarian workers. a tragedy that could undermine confidence in health services in areas controlled by the opposition. The Free Revolutionary Police is a recently launched unarmed police movement that works in areas controlled by the Free Syrian Army to solve daily problems in Idlib, said the group. Photo taken on 17 September 2014. REUTERS / Khalil Ashawi (SYRIA – Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT HEALTH)
A girl receives measles immunization drops at a health center in the BASECO complex in Tondo, Manila, September 3, 2014. Philippine President Benigno Aquino said that on September 11, 2014, between 11 and 13 million people in the country were at risk of measles, polio and rubella (German measles), and asked the public to cooperate to eradicate preventable diseases, at the launch Monday of a national mass immunization campaign against measles and polio, local media reported. REUTERS / Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES – Tags: SOCIETY OF HEALTH)
A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccines as well as an information leaflet are visible at the Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts on February 26, 2015. REUTERS / Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES – Tags: HEALTH)
Rowan Walters, four years old, is being held by her mother while she was given an MMR injection at the pediatric outpatient department of Morriston Hospital in Swansea, South Wales, USA. April 6, 2013. Following an increase in the number of confirmed measles cases in South Wales, parents in the region were urged to vaccinate their children and hospitals in the region opened Saturday clinics. home, local media reported. REUTERS / Rebecca Naden (BRITAIN – Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)
A health worker in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexican border with El Paso, Texas, distributes leaflets to passing motorists and people as part of a measles prevention program on February 16, 2015. The California public health officials confirmed three more measles cases in an outbreak that began in late December, bringing to 113 the total number of people who would have been infected in the state. Health officials in Arizona, where seven cases of measles have been documented, said the outbreak would likely be over in this state if no other infections were reported over the weekend. Across the United States, more than 150 people have been diagnosed with measles, most of them being linked to an epidemic that, according to the authorities, would have started when an infected person from the country was diagnosed with the disease. visited Disneyland at the end of December. REUTERS / Jose Luis Gonzalez (MEXICO – Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH IMMIGRATION)
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The scare is part of a wave of nationwide measles outbreaks in California, New York State, Washington, New Jersey and Michigan, according to the US Center for Disease Control. In a statement, CDC officials accused "an increase in the number of travelers who catch measles abroad and introduce it to the United States, and / or the spread of measles in American communities. with pockets of unvaccinated people ".
Federal health officials said the number of confirmed measles patients in the United States – 626 in 22 states – was set to surpass the record of 667 cases recorded in 2014. One in 1,000 children who contract the disease will die, according to the CDC.
In Los Angeles County, health officials said that international travelers, health professionals and those who care for young children should consider a second vaccination. One of the confirmed academic cases "is actually being made overseas before contracting measles," Ferrer said.
There have been five cases of measles in Los Angeles County this year, she said.
On Friday, President Donald Trump urged parents to vaccinate their children.
"It really is around now, they have to be vaccinated," he said.
In a 2015 presidential debate, Trump seemed to adhere to the statement, refuted by science, that there is a link between child immunization and autism.
"Autism has become an epidemic … I am totally in favor of vaccines," he said at the time. "But I want smaller doses over a longer period."
Earlier this year, Michelle Mello, professor of research and health policy at the Stanford School of Medicine, said in an academic speech-response that "one of the most frustrating aspects of this problem for Health experts is the persistence of mistaken beliefs about the risks associated with vaccination, which are often attributable to a discredited and retracted study on vaccines and autism.
"As a parent," she continued, "I sleep better knowing that my children are immune."
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