> Talk to me a little bit about measles, what they are and we should be worried
about them at this day and age? > Yeah. Well. Absolutely. Measles is it's a really
important topic and Kathy and what we need to point out
is that measles is a completely preventable vaccine. Well, you know, fairly
preventable. The vaccination has been around for a long time United States, you
know, measles is essentially been eradicated in the US, and every year we
have these outcroppings of outbreaks. Recently we've had about 21 cases, I
think, as of July or end of end of July of 2018 in the United States already
surpassing sorry we have 21 stage 117 cases in about 20 21 states which
already surpassed the 2017 total amount in the u.s. in Florida the last the last
report from the end of July has about seven or eight cases in Florida a couple
have been from Florida residents who've traveled out of the country, and a couple
of bieing foreign nationals have traveled into the country also. The rest of the
world there much of the developed world has vaccines for measles, well some don't.
So what's really important to realize is measles is not a benign disease, it's not
a disease that you see in the cartoons with red spots and the fever and that's
it. Complications from measles results every
3,000 kids who get the measles one or two will die. Pneumonia being the most
common complication and sefa lightest which is a swelling of the membrane
around the brain is a complication of measles, it's a preventable disease that
we have vaccines for and the most important thing that we can do as
parents is to vaccinate our kids, on schedule on time, and encourage great
hand-washing and hygiene for our kids in a school setting.
> Can we keep stressing the importance of vaccines especially a measles vaccine?
> Listen you're talking to a pediatric emergency physician and I'm a strong
believer in my children and my colleagues in vaccines, you know, the
conspiracy theory that vaccines were out there to make that a lot of conspiracy
theories out there that's all been disproven debunked absolutely
pediatricians and and and you know our colleagues all want to do what's best
for kids. We advocate for kids, we wanna protect kids this is not a big
moneymaker for pediatricians. Pediatricians typically lose money by giving vaccines
because at the time efforting cost of the vaccines, we want to protect children.
You know, I personally that over the course of my career in a
pediatric emergency room different vaccines whether it's measles, but you
know Previn, the rotavirus vaccine, these are all vaccines are coming in the
last two decades have all college our ER visits to go down with the acute
diseases. We're seeing these positive effects of the vaccines by seeing less
and less sick kids in the emergency room which is great.
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