Comments on: Measles Health Alert

By: aidan

aidan — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:54:29 +0000

a great reminder. thanks! saw a few cases of chicken pox last year, don’t think i missed any measles.

By: LibraryGryffon

LibraryGryffon — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:22:17 +0000

How often do you actually see a case of measles these days? Could it be that so many children are vaccinated, that the vast majority of febrile rashes are NOT measles, and so measles is now a zebra?

When I had mumps back in 1982 (on vacation from college of course), the first visit to the ER was for an assumed insect sting, and the doctors and nurses there agreed. When the second side swelled a day and a half later, the poor senior resident had to pull out Harrison’s to check, since he’d only ever seen one case of it before. I was a bit of an oddity, being just old enough to have not received an immunization, but just young enough to have not been exposed at school.

By: DS

DS — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:14:58 +0000

We had a case of measles last week at my hospital in a 40 year old male with HIV and AIDS. I’m assuming this was reactivation in a patient with a disastrous immune system and not a new infection.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:59:19 +0000

“…how a patient with the number one infectious disease in the world visited 5 different doctors (including a Childrens’ Hospital) and it wasn’t picked up”

It doesn’t say one person visited 5 different places. It refers to 3 cases of measles and says “the infected [b]individuals[/b] visited several health care facilities”.

By: Steve Lucas

Steve Lucas — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:25:32 +0000

Last year an older doctor passed away and the loss to the community was his clincial skills. He was called in to examine kids when all of the test did not show a cause of illness. He remembered the old illnesses and it was his touch and knowledge that were valuable.

By: GruntDoc

GruntDoc — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:46:15 +0000

Sandra,
Given the paucity of information, it’s a little early to jump to the ‘redneck moron anti-vaccine religious extremist conspiracy’ just yet. Why don’t we wait a bit, and let our preconceptions about others simmer beneath the surface, so to speak. So as we don’t look, well, predisposed to think the worst of others in a stereotypical manner, one which makes our biases look less like, you know, bigotry against religion and whatnot.

As for granola, it’s terrific if you’re irregular, otherwise it’s for the Birds.

By: liv

liv — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:23:38 +0000

They could also have extremist granola views. I get that a lot.

But maybe that’s less likely in Texas.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:11:03 +0000

Given that it happened in Texas (where I have lived for 20 years now) I would not be at all surprised if the child was not vaccinated bec the parents have extremist religious viewpoints or are ignorant of the risks of vaccines versus the risks of illness. If we Americans don’t get more serious about science and away from fundamentalist religious thinking our complacency is going to cost lives of children.

I will now get off my soapbox……

By: dr epicurus in oz

dr epicurus in oz — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:35:22 +0000

That is disturbing…you’d think the first question any doc would ask any kid with a rash would be about vaccinations. Well, maybe second after checking Kernig’s…