Disneyland Measles Outbreak Finally Over; Is Vaccine Really Needed?

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By staff writer , Parent Herald Apr 17, 08:21 am

There is no need to worry if you are planning to take your kids to California's happiest place on earth now. California public authorities announced that the measles outbreak, which began in Disneyland, is likely going to be over by Friday, as reported in The Los Angeles Times. Officials said that the epidemic would be deemed over by the end of this workweek if no new outbreak incident materializes by then.

From December 2014 to April 2015, 134 measles outbreak reportedly occurred in California. The most recent outbreak occurred on March 2. The previous week's announcement from the California Department of Public Health indicated this information.

Out of the 134 cases, 40 came from recent Disneyland visitors. The other 30 people contacted measles from the people they live with who are infected by the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the measles outbreak started from a Disneyland visitor who acquired the illness from another country. The agency stated that this visitor was still contagious when he visited the Anaheim theme park in California.

The Disneyland California epidemic outbreak was similar in nature to the measles epidemic that plagued the Philippines the previous year, which caused 58,000 people to get sick and 110 to die. However, there are no studies or theories relating California's Disneyland measles outbreak to the aforementioned incident.

Meanwhile, three of California's state legislators have already given their support to SB 277 bill. This bill, if passed, would compel parents to have their kids vaccinated against measles and other serious illnesses prior to attending California public schools. Richard Pan, a Sacramento California assemblyman, sponsors this bill. Pan is a registered pediatrician.

SB 277 may just curve the spread of contagious diseases such as those in Anaheim's Disneyland. The legislative bill provided exceptions to the following:

-Kids who cannot get vaccinated due to immune-system health related issues.

-Kids who are attending a home-school program.

The United States CDC attributed much of the spread of contagious diseases throughout the country to the Disneyland California measles outbreak, as reported in Cidrap.umn.edu. The CDC noted that 159 measles outbreak in the country was reported to have occurred this year within January 4 and April 2.

Medicalxpress.com revealed that kids combat measles better after having taken subcutaneous or skin vaccines rather than aerosolized vaccines. Dr. Nicola Low, M.D., a medical practitioner in Switzerland's University of Bern, produced such findings by studying kids aged nine to eleven years old in India.