With over 1,200 measles cases in the U.S. so far -- and the U.S. at risk of losing its measles elimination status -- emoryghi held a panel discussion this week on the outbreak, and what it could mean. cc: EmoryUniversity
. There’s been associations between measles infections and premature birth, low birth weight infants, so challenges that really could be prevented by having measles immunization. There’s also an association with still births and potentially early abortions as well. What we really hope to do is have every women who is pregnant be immune to measles through being measles immunized .The
is a live-virus vaccine so it is not recommended that a woman receive measles vaccine during pregnancy, if she should be exposed. In that situation, immunoglobulin would be given in the hope that it would prevent transmission to the infant.: The CDC is on the verge of declaring that measles is no longer eliminated in the U.S. What is the impact going to be here and globally?: It’s a shame we’ve gone so many years now … almost 19 years without ongoing transmission in the U.S.
But I think as we see these outbreaks growing it may be harder for us to escape having measles cases locally. Friends of mine were pregnant at the time when the first case in Georgia came up in this current outbreak and everybody was calling and asking me how worried should they be about that. I used that as a chance to say, ‘This is also your opportunity. I’m just an academic, you’re somebody out there who has these concerns.
vaccine, where the news is constantly promoting the rate of vaccine effectiveness. This is not much of an issue for measles per se.: I take care of a lot of immuno-compromised children and my families are really worried and really struggle because the schools won’t even let them know how many kids in the classroom are vaccinated and unvaccinated. They don’t know how to protect their children.
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