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The measles epidemic in New Jersey has spread to a second county and the number of confirmed cases has risen to 11 this year, as national health authorities continue to express concern over the rapid increase in the number of confirmed cases. infections.
Seven of the cases are in Ocean County and two others in Monmouth County, health officials said. Two other cases had already been reported in the counties of Bergen and Essex.
Health officials have listed a dozen locations, including Newark Airport, Monmouth Medical Center and locations around Lakewood where people may have been exposed to measles.
An "unidentified adult man from Ocean County" visited places in Lakewood's places of worship, a wedding venue and a yeshiva while he was infected with measles between March 9 and 14, and could have expose others, according to the New Jersey Department of Health. The state declared a home on March 15.
The most recent epidemic is the second in the state of the last six months. The first outbreak wounded 33 people in Ocean and Passaic counties from October before being declared over in January.
The continuing spread in New Jersey comes as measles cases in the first three months of 2019 have already surpassed the total of last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. There were 387 cases until March 28, reported the CDC.
(Centers for Disease Control)
Officials in Rockland County, New York, just north of Bergen County, have banned unvaccinated minors from going to public places to fight a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since October. The county is currently experiencing the longest measles outbreak in New York since the official elimination of the disease in the United States in 2000. Health officials said the best way to curb the spread of the disease was a high vaccination rate in the community.
Last month, a federal judge denied parents' request to allow 44 unvaccinated children to return to the Waldorf School in Rockland County.
People can get measles from 5 to 21 days after being exposed to the virus. Symptoms of measles vary, but may include high fever, cough, runny nose, red and watery eyes, and rash.
According to the health official, the virus can cause ear infections, pneumonia, swelling of the brain, miscarriage in pregnant women and even death, especially in children.
For 1,000 children with measles, one or two will die.
If you have received the two recommended doses of measles vaccine in your childhood, you are considered to be protected for life and do not need a booster, according to the CDC.
Anyone who has visited the following places may have been exposed to measles:
- Bais Tefilla Congregation, 33 East 8th St, Lakewood (March 9, 2019 from 8:30 am to 1:45 pm, March 10th from 7:30 am to 11 am, March 11th from 7:30 am to 11 am, March 13th from 7:30 am to 11 am and March 14 from 7:30 am to 11:00 am)
- Beth Medrash Govoha, Bais Yitzchok Room, Lakewood (March 10 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, March 11 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, March 13 from 12:45 pm to 4:00 pm)
- Beth Medrash Govoha, Yoshon Hall, Lakewood (March 10 from 4 to 9:30 pm, March 11 from 4 to 9:30 pm, March 12 from 5:30 to 9:30 pm)
- Beth Hamedrash Zichron Binyomin, 701 Princeton Avenue, Lakewood (March 9 from 3 to 9:30 pm, March 10 from 9:30 pm to midnight, March 11 from 9:30 pm to midnight, March 13 from 10:45 pm to 1:15 am on March 14)
- Lake Terrace Hall, 1690 Oak Street, Lakewood (March 11 from 10 am to 12:45 pm (March 12)
- Kol Shimshon, 323 Squankum Road, Lakewood (March 12 from 8 am to 11 am, March 12 from 9 pm to 11:15 pm)
- Bais Medrash Tiferes Pinchos, 5th Street East and Negba S.t, Lakewood (March 9th from 9h to 13h and from 16h30 to 19h)
- Airport B Newark International Airport, Terminal B (March 14th from 3pm to 12:30 pm on March 15th)
- Tottini Kidswear, 204 Clifton Ave, Lakewood (March 10 from noon to 3:15 pm)
- Clover, 115 Clifton Ave., Lakewood (March 10 from 1 pm to 4 pm)
- Kidichic, 251 2nd St, Lakewood (March 10 from 1:45 pm to 5:00 pm)
- Monmouth Medical Center, Emergency Department, Long Branch (March 13 from 7:30 pm to 10:15 pm)
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