Maryland health officials say a case of measles has been confirmed in Baltimore County, and a Pikesville location may have exposed people to the highly contagious, and sometimes fatal, disease. On April 5, the Maryland Department of Health confirmed a measles case in a Maryland resident.
State health officials said in a news release that anyone who visited an office building at 4000 Old Court Road in Pikesville on Tuesday, April 2, may have been exposed to measles. Possible exposure times were from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day. People who may have been exposed at additional locations are being notified directly, the department said.
YWN has confirmed that at this address is the office of one of most popular pediatricians servicing the Orthodox Jewish community.
Measles is a vaccine-preventable virus that can easily be spread to unvaccinated people through coughing, sneezing and oral secretions. It can remain the air for up to two hours. Officials warn anyone who was at the location, particularly those who aren’t vaccinated, to watch for early symptoms, especially fever.
Anyone who develops a fever or other symptoms should call their doctor, and shouldn’t go to child care, school, work or out in public so as to avoid putting anyone else at risk. Those with symptoms should call their doctor about their symptoms before arriving to the waiting room so that the office can work to prevent spread to other patients.
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When is this plague going to stop? When will all the misinformed people learn that not to vaccinate is insane and it is a mistake that is putting peoples lives in danger. Rabbanin call them out and do not be afraid just because there is a CHashuva name attached to the anti vaxers, The gemorah says that the humility of Zechariah ben Avkolus destroyed the Bais Hamikdash because on stubborness. Remember Pharoah also hardened his heart and we know how that story ends. The time has come where all children and adults in need be vaccinated.
a pediatrician’s office where babies who are too young to be vaccinated are commonly found is a great danger.
This is why so many ppl see the frum community as dumb
To be clear, Baltimore (the vaad the schools etc) are EXTREMELY vigilant About enforcing vaccinations and almost no school will accept children who are not vaccinated based on religious grounds. Even schools that had looser policies previously have updated their policies in recent months. The cases that are now in Baltimore, two children from the same family, are a family that DOES vaccinate. They were visited by relatives from Monsey that do NOT vaccinate, and came with a child with active measles. The two cases in the baltimore family are a one-year-old, who had not been vaccinated yet because of age, and a four-year-old who had not received a second vaccination and did not yet attend school . So now all of baltimore has to be worried because of crazy outsiders.