On Wednesday, the Tuolumne County Public Health Service confirmed on Wednesday two cases of measles per day after having opened an investigation into possible infections.
The ministry said that business involved an adult and a child under the age of 18 who lived in the same household and had traveled internationally. We do not know if they had been vaccinated against measles, a very contagious and potentially fatal disease associated with a Skin fever and rash.
On Tuesday, the ministry said that it was investigating in the cases of measles and warned of potential exhibition in Summerville High School in Tuolumne on March 10 to 11 and in the Adventist Health Sonora Emergency on the evening of March 15 and morning of March 16.
Public health officials published another update Thursday evening by warning those who visited the rear gymnasium of the Sonora Sports and Fitness Center, the locker rooms, the toilets and the rear swimming pool on March 10 between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., a possible exhibition.
“We understand that there can be a lot of questions and concerns. confirm the cases. “We want to remind the public that measles is a very contagious disease and take measures to protect you and protect your family by ensuring current vaccination status for measles, monitoring symptoms and respect for the house when you feel sick.”
Michael Merrill, Superintendent of Summerville Union High School District, also published this week a statement that the district “takes the health and safety of its students, its staff and our community seriously” and that the school would work with public health officials “by the process of identifying any risk”. More than 430 students attend Summerville high school, according to its website.
The cases of the county of Tuolumne come in the middle of a Deadly of measles epidemic which started in the region of the south of the plains and the Panhandle in Texas in January and has since infected 279 people, making up the vast majority than 300 confirmed cases In 15 states so far this year. A child of school not vaccinated in Texas deceased from the disease in February.
California Department of Public Health reported on Thursday that there was at least Eight confirmed cases of measles in the state this year. They did not publish the locations of the cases.
The county of Tuolumne reported part of the state lower vaccination rate During the school year of 2023-24, according to data published this week by the State Department of Public Health.
Only 89.8% of students from the Comté de Tuolumne kindergarten were up to date on all their vaccinations, against 93.7% of kindergarten alumni. And only 93.1% of kindergarten students had received the two doses of measles, mumps and rubella fire, significantly lower than the average of the state scale of 96.2%. California generally publishes vaccination rates for kindergarten, first -year and seventh year students.
Public health experts claim that a 95%vaccination rate, sometimes called “herd immunity”, is considered the Order of Disease Prevention. A shift of the same 1 or 2 percentage points can create an opportunity for the disease to propagate, which means that even if the overwhelming majority of children are vaccinated, it could still take only a few cases to trigger an epidemic in an area where immunization rates have dropped below 95%.
California pointed out a drop last year In the share of kindergarten students who have been immunized against measles, despite strict laws that make parents difficult to skip photos from their children. This includes 16 counties where the immunization of measles had fallen below the immunity threshold of the herd.
An increase in the hesitation of vaccines in recent years, associated with generalized disinformation online and a growing political division, could make it even more difficult to encourage vaccination, said former state senator Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who wrote California vaccines.
“We seem to lead in the wrong direction,” said Pan. “We felt fairly comfortable, like” we are well “. But we suddenly prove to people now, it's not ok.
