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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Lower than two weeks after reporting its first measles case in 5 years, Michigan now has a second lively case.
The Washtenaw County Health Department introduced Sunday {that a} optimistic case has been reported there. It comes days after the Michigan Division of Well being and Human Providers introduced a optimistic case in neighboring Oakland County.
The announcement additionally got here with an publicity warning. The one that examined optimistic had visited the Trinity Well being Emergency Division in Ann Arbor on Friday and was within the triage and ready areas from roughly 10:30 a.m. by 1:30 p.m. Anybody who was there at the moment could have been uncovered as a result of the measles virus can survive within the air for as much as two hours. Anybody who was current on the above time and who will not be already proof against measles is urged to get the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine inside 72 hours of publicity.
“People with two, appropriately spaced doses of measles vaccine (MMR) are thought of immune. Moreover, adults born earlier than 1957 or who’ve proof of prior measles sickness are thought of immune,” the Washtenaw County Well being Division said in a statement. “For kids, the primary dose of MMR vaccine is routinely given at about 12 months of age, and the second beginning at 4 years of age.”
Measles is a extremely contagious illness that’s unfold by the air and thru direct person-to-person contact. Signs sometimes begin inside 7 to 14 days of publicity however can seem as much as three weeks after preliminary publicity. They embrace a excessive fever, cough, runny nostril and purple, watery eyes. It additionally comes with a signature rash that’s purple, raised and blotchy. It sometimes begins on the face earlier than spreading to the torso, legs and arms. The illness generally causes tiny white spots on the within of the mouth two to 3 days after preliminary signs.
In response to the MDHHS, roughly one in 5 measles sufferers require hospitalization.
This case is a part of an upswing in circumstances of a illness that was thought of eradicated for many years after a protected and efficient vaccine was launched, however measles has resurfaced within the final 20 years.
In response to the CDC, 41 cases have already been reported this 12 months in 15 different states. There have been 58 circumstances reported in all of 2023. There was a major spike in circumstances in 2019, the place 1,274 circumstances have been confirmed by the CDC.
The MDHHS says vaccination charges have dropped following the COVID-19 pandemic. The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine fee for teenagers aged 4 to six years outdated has dropped from 89.4% in 2017 to 84% in 2022.
“The measles vaccine is very efficient and really protected. A single dose of measles vaccine is about 93% efficient at stopping measles, whereas two doses are about 97% efficient. Additionally it is efficient if used inside 72 hours of a measles publicity to forestall sickness,” the MDHHS said in a statement.
Michigan residents can contact their physician or their native well being division for methods to schedule an appointment to get the vaccine.
