Health officials considered banning individuals from flying to prevent measles transmission

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Health officials have considered banning individuals from flying to prevent measles transmission

This year there have been such discussions about eight individuals in five states, as first reported by the Washington Post Thursday.The eight individuals were either confirmed to be infected, believed to have a high probability of having measles, or at high risk due to not being immune to the highly contagious virus and suspected of being in close contact with someone who has measles, CDC spokeswoman Caitlin Shockey told CNN.

"The problem is most of the time when we do contact investigations the time window for measles is narrow ... we are hearing about it after the fact so [our] ability to know about cases before they travel is infrequent," Cetron said.There was one known secondary case of measles this year, meaning a passenger became infected while traveling from another infected traveler, Cetron told CNN."We can't always say it was the cabin environment for sure.

 

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Have we considered closing ports of entry?

Great idea. It’s not “forced immunization” but if you want to play stupid games, you lose your privileges

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