The condition of the hostess of El Al air with measles worsens

An El Al Israeli flight attendant remains in a coma following a neurological complication following measles, public health officials said, according to a source CNN report. Her condition worsens and she is already at risk of brain damage.

The flight attendant, a healthy 43-year-old woman, had developed encephalitis, a swelling of the brain, a serious complication sometimes caused by measles. She has been hospitalized since the March 26th flight between New York and Tel Aviv.

Dr. Itamar Grotto, Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, said that the flight attendant could have caught measles in New York, Israel or during a flight between two destinations. "It's been 10 days since she's in a coma, and we hope everything will be fine," Grotto said. CNN.

The woman is unable to breathe on her own and is connected to an ICU respirator at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba for two weeks.

The flight attendant was vaccinated against measles as a child, but received only a single dose, as did all those who had been vaccinated before 1989. Later, it appeared that a dose was effective at 93%. which is 97% effective.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children under five and adults over the age of 20 are more likely to develop measles complications. One in 1,000 children with measles will develop encephalitis that can cause seizures and possibly deafness or brain damage.