Can measles be stopped?

US The worst experience A year for the group In more than three decades, with more than 1300 cases in 40 states as of July 16. The cases were almost high in 2019, which put the country The case of eliminating measles at stake. Six years ago, health officials managed to stop this spread. But amid an increasingly general violent reaction against vaccines, many of the tactics used after that now may not work.

Eliminating measles means that there was no continuous transition in a country for more than 12 months. This happened almost in the outbreak of 2019, which greatly affected the Orthodox Jewish population in New York City and some of the surrounding provinces. In the fall of 2018, American travelers returning from Israel made a positive test of the group. The disease has spread rapidly in all coherent societies, especially among children, due to low vaccination rates. While the measles vaccination rate at the state level of children at the age of school was 98 percent in the previous academic year, and to cover vaccination in schools in the outbreak area It was only 77 percent. Because the measles are very infectious, a The vaccination rate is 95 percent It is necessary to protect society from disease.

As a result, most of the measles cases occurred in individuals 18 or less, Almost 86 percent It is known that they are not imprisoned. Some of these people have developed severe complications, including pneumonia, and about 8 percent have been transferred to the hospital.

The current increase is provided with a outbreak that has begun in the unrelated Minunite community in West Texas. The cases have since spread to other Texas provinces, New Mexico and Akllahoma. Two children in Texas died without essential circumstances and an adult person in New Mexico this year as a result of the group. They were all immune.

“There are definitely similarities. What we saw in New York was the result of years and years of the spread of wrong information and misleading about the safety of vaccines,” says Neil Vera, CEO of Media Prevention in 2019.

Ultimately, the cases were burned in New York after a period of months of months that included both traditional public health methods and political changes at the local state level.

“You need to take the first case seriously, because it resembles the ribs. You never know when this fire will erupt,” says Oxyiris Barbot, the current president and executive director of the United Hospital Fund, who held the position of health commissioner in New York City from 2018 to 2020.

With the spread of the disease, Barbut realized that the city’s Ministry of Health would need to go to a source of transmission, to a large extent, the Jewish Orthodox schools in the affected neighborhoods. By working with school administrators, they reviewed the vaccination records to identify non -immune or unjust children. After exposure, these children were banned from attending schools and caring for children for 21 days, the custody period for the group. Similar measures have been taken in some provinces outside the city.

“It took a lot of employees’ time, and a lot of leg works,” says Barbot. In one of the schools, a gayed child led to more than 25 infections in other students and spread out of school. She says that the Ministry of Health was “deeply involved” in ensuring that schools were committed to quarantine measures. “