NATS 1760 Chapter : NATS 1760- CHABRIS & SIMONS .docx

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1760
• Professor: Darrin Durant

Document Summary

Measles is among the most infectious viruses affecting children. When a person with measles sneezes, another person can contract the disease just by breathing the air in the room or touching a contaminated surface. Serious complications of the disease include: blindness, severe dehydration, diarrhea, encephalitis and pneumonia. 2005 cincinnati outbreak where six year old girl got measles, because she attended a church gathering where a seventeen year old had just returned from a church mission in bucharest. Seventeen-year-old girl was not vaccinated; symptoms did not appear immediate and did not know she was infected. Index case"- the first person to be infected, and thus the source of the infections in all of the later patients. Although vaccination is mandatory for all children attending public schools in the. United states, in many states, parents can file a personal belief exemption" that allows them to forgo vaccination for their children for religious reasons.