UC Berkeley student exposes Bay Area to measles, officials say

[tru_m.a.c]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...ay-area-20140214,0,608292.story#axzz2tktmTlFO

Bay Area officials say scores of commuters and other residents may have recently been exposed to measles after a UC Berkeley student who has the virus attended classes and took public transit.

The student, who was not identified, took a Bay Area Rapid Transit train from his home in Contra Costa County to the college campus to attend class, officials said.

"Measles is a serious, highly contagious disease," said Berkeley's health officer, Dr. Janet Berreman. "It spreads through the air, when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Fortunately, the measles vaccine is highly effective in preventing infection."

In a news release posted on the city of Berkeley's website, officials said they believe the student was not vaccinated and likely contracted measles during a recent trip abroad.

"Before being diagnosed, the student spent time in the Berkeley community, including attending classes and using BART on several days," according to the news release.

Anyone who shows symptoms should immediately see a health professional, officials said.

Symptoms, which can begin one to three weeks after exposure, can include high fever, watery red eyes and a rash that often occurs on the person's face and neck a couple days after the fever starts before spreading to the body.

Officials said that because the measles virus can stay airborne for up to two hours, anyone who used BART from Feb. 4 to Feb. 7 during the morning and late evening commutes may have been exposed.

So far, no other cases have been identified, but officials said they are still investigating the situation.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Use public transportation brehs....

 

[thekingsmen]

This wasn't about the student with measles at all but a thread to bash alternative medicine. Very predictable. Too bad the info is wrong on what vaccines did.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

This wasn't about the student with measles at all

It was though lol...I posted the link friend.

but a thread to bash alternative medicine. Very predictable. Too bad the info is wrong on what vaccines did.

I mean, even without the picture, it's still a thread bashing anti-vaccine folks. The science is against you.

 

[thekingsmen]

It was though lol...I posted the link friend.



I mean, even without the picture, it's still a thread bashing anti-vaccine folks. The science is against you.

The article is extremely vague and doesn't tell you how the person got measles in the first place. Matter of fact those who were vaccinated seem to worry about getting sick more than those who aren't.

Science isn't against me...you are for pro-vaccine science paid by Big Pharma. I'm pro-alternative medicine science paid by no-one but small groups of individuals.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

The article is extremely vague and doesn't tell you how the person got measles in the first place. Matter of fact those who were vaccinated seem to worry about getting sick more than those who aren't.

We're not personally scared. We just understand the unnecessary risk.

I'm pro-alternative medicine science paid by no-one but small groups of individuals.

And peer reviewed and proven to work in closed trials by whom

 

[thekingsmen]

We're not personally scared. We just understand the unnecessary risk.



And peer reviewed and proven to work in closed trials by whom

"We".....

How about u research that before judging.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

"We".....

How about u research that before judging.

I'll just drop this here then

You probably know what’s coming next—vaccines and autism, of course.Natural News loves to prey on vulnerable parents, and it’s jumped all over questionable preliminary studies linking autism with everything from gluten toair pollution to antidepressants to the “Western lifestyle.” But the site’s drumbeat of support for the thoroughly debunked claim that vaccines cause autism is particularly shameful.

In case you’ve managed to miss this “controversy” (where have you been and congratulations, by the way), a 1998 paper in the influential medical journal The Lancet claimed that the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella caused autism. Sixteen years and many preventable measles outbreaks later, we know for certain that the claim is wrong. Literally hundreds of thousands of children have participated in studies around the world showing no association between vaccines and autism. A 2011 Institute of Medicine review of thousands of different studies reached the same conclusion. The Lancet has withdrawn the original paper and Andrew Wakefield, its author, lost his medical license, in part because he failed to disclose that lawyers preparing to sue vaccine manufacturers helped fund his research.

None of this has deterred a small number of evidence-averse anti-vaccine campaigners, who think there is an international, inter-governmental conspiracy including thousands of doctors working for Big Vaccine. Natural News is, of course, bouncing along giddily on the bandwagon. In September, for example, the site published a story claiming that the government has “once again conceded” that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Here’s what actually happened. In the 1980s, the federal government set up a fund for people who may have been harmed by vaccines. Although such injuries are extremely rare, vaccines are administered so broadly that tort claims could clog up the courts and deter drug manufacturers and doctors from providing vaccines.

The fund does not compensate parents who believe their children developed autism as a direct result of receiving a vaccination—the fund’s administrators rejected that link in a series of test cases. However, some researchers believe that certain vaccines may in rare cases prompt an adverse reaction and cause encephalopathy, at a rate of aboutone case in 310,000 vaccine recipients. As a result, the fund pays children who were diagnosed with encephalopathy shortly after receiving a vaccine, whether or not they can prove causation. In some cases, children with encephalopathy are later diagnosed with autism. However, just as researchers have been unable to prove a causal link between vaccines and autism, they have been unable to produce convincing evidence that encephalopathy causes autism.

Evidence be damned, though. When the vaccine injury fund compensates an encephalopathy victim—whether or not autism is involved—sites like Natural News describe it as a government admission that vaccines cause autism. It’s nothing of the sort, but this unique brand of yellow journalism has earned the site 75,000 Facebook shares and counting. That’s the only hard data Natural News cares about.

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...ver_click_on_itsr_stories_about_cancer.2.html

 

[thekingsmen]

I'll just drop this here then



http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...ver_click_on_itsr_stories_about_cancer.2.html

Liberal magazine with lies and bias. Figures. Try something independent.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

So should vaccinated people be worried about this?

 

[88m3]

people like this should be shot

he wasn't immunized and was allowed to attend classes?

 

[thekingsmen]

people like this should be shot

he wasn't immunized and was allowed to attend classes?

So people should be shot for having the flu as well?
Nothing in the story says he was or wasn't immunized other than assumptions. The article is vague. Nothing else.

 

[88m3]

So people should be shot for having the flu as well?
Nothing in the story says he was or wasn't immunized other than assumptions. The article is vague. Nothing else.

"In a news release posted on the city of Berkeley's website, officials said they believe the student was not vaccinated and likely contracted measles during a recent trip abroad".

c*nt

 

[thekingsmen]

"In a news release posted on the city of Berkeley's website, officials said they believe the student was not vaccinated and likely contracted measles during a recent trip abroad".

c*nt

Ass-sumptions. I believe 88 is a smart man...does that make it true?

 

[88m3]

You are a really stupid person and I have no problem telling you that.