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Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller

* News-Gazette

Two additional people have measles in Champaign County.

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported the additions on Sunday afternoon.

The person with the third case of measles was in quarantine for the entire infectious period.

The fourth case is pending genotyping results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Administrator Julie A. Pryde said all four of the measles cases are no longer infectious.

Pryde said most people are vaccinated for measles routinely, in childhood, starting at age one and are not at high risk for infection.

“Of most concern are people who have not been vaccinated, including infants,” she said.

* Public Radio

CUPHD said the third case was in quarantine the entire time the disease was infectious, so they don’t believe it was spread to anyone else. But they said it’s possible the person with the fourth case spread it to other individuals at the times and places listed below:

    Thursday 2/7, 5:30-8:30pm, Texas Roadhouse, 204 N. Country Fair Dr., Champaign.
    Sunday 2/10, 7:00-9:10pm, Save-A-Lot, 220 N. Broadway Ave., Urbana.
    Monday 2/11-Thursday 2/14, 1:00-5:30pm, Urbana Early Childhood School, 2202 E. Washington, Urbana
    Tuesday 2/12, 5:00-7:30pm, Carle Urbana on Windsor, Convenient Care, 1818 E. Windsor Road, Urbana

An early childhood school. Great. Just great. Let’s just hope there are no kids at that school who are too sick from cancer or whatever to be vaccinated. The very lives of those folks are dependent upon herd immunity.

       

21 Comments
  1. - Perrid - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:12 am:

    Rich, do you ever get the feeling you’re screaming into the void? These “people” aren’t going to change *sigh*.


  2. - FormerParatrooper - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:17 am:

    Pastor did a lot of research, lets not waste it.


  3. - Demoralized - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:46 am:

    Unless you have a specific medical reason to not be vaccinated then vaccinate your kids. I think we should find people guilty of child neglect if they don’t.


  4. - Soccermom - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:51 am:

    People can change


  5. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:53 am:

    A little ray of sunshine: some teens are seeking to get vaccinated on their own, despite their parents lunacy.

    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/teens-fight-back-against-anti-vaccination-views-of-their-parents


  6. - Huh? - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:53 am:

    There is an article on the Wired Magizine website about how the measles virus hijacks the immune system for years after infection.

    Formerparatrooper- I think you mean Louis Pasteur, the French researcher known for his discoveries of vaccination, fermentation, and pasteurization.

    The renowned researcher in vaccines was Edward Jenner, an English researcher in late 18th century. Jenner discovered a vaccine for small pox. At that time small pox killed about 20% of the people infected with the virus. Jenner is considered to be the “father of immunology”.

    Like you said, let’s not waste the valuable and proven research from the 18th and 19th century.


  7. - jimbo - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:56 am:

    Am I interpreting this correctly? They thought something was wrong enough to take their kid to the Dr on Tuesday, but the child still attended school the rest of the week?

    Even if it takes days to test (does it?) I’m surprised the recommendation would not be to keep the child home if measles was suspected


  8. - Huh? - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 11:58 am:

    How many anti-vaxxers have a relative with a circular scar on their shoulder? This scar is the result of a small pox vaccination. An insidious and fatal disease that was declared an eradicated disease in 1979. Only by the coordinated effort to vaccinate EVERYONE was the disease eradicated from the world.


  9. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:14 pm:

    One of my favorite statistics is that in 1954, parents volunteered 1.8 million children to take the experimental Salk polio vaccine. I was born in 56 and may have gotten the shot. I do remember in the very early 1960’s standing in line with most of the town to get the sugar cube vaccine. Those parents lived through the Depression,WW2, Korean War and the start of the Cold War. Unthinkable today that parents would do that. We’ve grown complacent, and the Internet may have made us a little less intelligent by comparison.


  10. - JB13 - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:27 pm:

    “We’ve grown complacent” is one way to describe it. I’d also include “spoiled,” “arrogant,” “reckless,” and “historically illiterate” to the list of suitable descriptors.


  11. - Blocked for a Pun - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:29 pm:

    =Pastor did a lot of research, lets not waste it. =

    Another theologian heard from.


  12. - ahimsa42 - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:31 pm:

    it is interesting that no one ever talks about why these communicable diseases exist in the first place and where they came from.


  13. - Huh? - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:46 pm:

    Blocked - There is no theology involved, just a misspelled name.


  14. - very old soil - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:47 pm:

    - ahimsa42 - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 12:31 pm:
    it is interesting that no one ever talks about why these communicable diseases exist in the first place and where they came from.

    OK I’ll bite. God, a communist conspiracy or the Clintons? Must be Madigan


  15. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 1:03 pm:

    –I do remember in the very early 1960’s standing in line with most of the town to get the sugar cube vaccine.–

    I got the sugar cube vaccine with the rest of the students at my public school. Parents showed up for it. We kids couldn’t figure out why the parents and teachers were crying and hugging.


  16. - FormerParatrooper - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 2:42 pm:

    Yes, misspelled name. One has to love and appreciate auto spell. Pasteur, I will write it on the chalk board 100 times.


  17. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 5:32 pm:

    - why the parents and teachers were crying and hugging -

    I’m afraid I don’t understand this either.


  18. - Lynn S. - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 6:36 pm:

    The possible measles case visiting the Urbana Early Childhood Center? That was a college student, either observing or volunteering there.

    I had an uncle and a great-aunt who both had limbs disfigured by polio. I made (banned word) sure my son got all his shots when he was little.


  19. - revvedup - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 6:38 pm:

    …and to the ADULTS out there, check with your healthcare professional about booster shots, and not just for measles. Some vaccines did not give the lifetime immunity Science believed at the time.


  20. - One More Time - Tuesday, Feb 19, 19 @ 7:52 pm:

    At least as of a few years ago, DCFS requires people working in child care centers to have proof of a MMR vaccine. I wonder if this person did have the vaccine, but it was no longer effective.


  21. - jimbo - Wednesday, Feb 20, 19 @ 10:22 am:

    - Anonymous @ 5:32 pm:

    -I’m afraid I don’t understand this (parents and teachers were crying and hugging) either.

    Presumably because they were elated that the constant fear of their children dying of polio had been removed


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