Three New Measles Cases Emerge in LA
Listen to this articleThree new cases have been found regarding measles in the Las Vegas, and this is thought to be infected by the worker at an upscale MGM grand hotel and casino seafood restaurant, Nevada public health officials said on Monday.
The diagnosed individuals are two staff members and patrons of Emeril’s New Orleans Fish house at the MGM grand hotel. Along with this, there have been nine more cases in the Clark Country, and this was confirmed by the Nevada Health district spokeswoman Jennifer Sizemore said.
WE can not link these cases to the Disneyland in December, where the outbreak of the measles happened. He further confirms that, there have been more than 150 people across the united states, who have been diagnosed with measles, and out of the 126 belong to the California.
Nevada public health officials believe that the worker of the Emeril was infected by the infant, who was too young to immunized against the highly contagious disease.
Sizemore said further that none of the newly diagnosed patients were hospitalized, but one visited the Walgreens drug store and Chilli’s restaurant in Las Vegas while infectious.
Nevada health officials said, “The heakth district has been constantly advising the anyone, who was at the place so as to have a proper monitoring of their health and to immunization status against measles if they have not ever the disease, “Nevada health officials said in a prepared statement”.
Moreoever, if a persona feels rash or fever or other symptoms developed consistent with the measles within 21 days after their visit”, the statement said.
The case of Disneyland was such as, a visitor from the out of country and he was infected as well with the measles, and this caused the outbreak of the measles in Disneyland.
California officials said that, we may never identify the resources, but here we can say that, same strain of virus also presents in the Philippines. But, we still have to take the preventive measures to ensure that everything may go best and protected.
In 2000, the US has declared its state as Measles free state after the years of intensive childhood vaccine efforts. But, in 2014, there have been found the highest number of cases of the measles in the two decades and this is the worst thing ever for the the country had its highest number of cases in two decades.
If we talk about the treatment of the measles, then we can say that, there is not a specific treatment for the measles, and a patient get recovered within the several weeks, but if the childred have poor immunity system, this disease can lead to the lots of major complications like blindness, severe diarrhea, encephalitis, pneumonia, ear infections, high fever, bone weaknesses, and lots of complications, which are required to be protected from.
