Once again, officials at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikvah are working to prevent the spread of measles.
The Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikvah has notified the Ministry of Health that the parents of 76 children should be warned that they may have been exposed to measles in the hospital. The children last week were in the emergency room while a toddler with the illness was present, KAN Reshet Bet News reported on Tuesday morning, 23 Tishrei.
The 13-month-old boy from Petach Tikvah, contracted the disease despite being vaccinated a few months ahead of a flight abroad to visit family. The child was to be vaccinated again as the vaccine is not too effective prior to age one.
Last summer, a three-year-old boy was reported to have contracted measles. The boy suffers from a blood disease and was treated with a hemo-oncology unit at Schneider Children’s Hospital.
The child was treated in a ward where children with cancer, whose immune system is weak, were hospitalized and it was feared that they contracted the illness due to their weakened immune system.
The Ministry of Health called on anyone who had been in contact with the child in question in this latest case to be examined and given preventive treatment towards avoiding further infection of children with the illness, that could become dangerous in some cases.
Written and published on Isru Chag Simchas Torah in Eretz Yisrael.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Thanks to the authors of the article for clarifying that the measles vaccine has limited efficacy for some infants but that shouldn’t deter parents from having their children vaccinated. The measles can be a dangerous and sometimes deadly disease and the fact that there are still some mindless parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids is beyond understanding. Fortunately, many chashuve rabbonim in the frum tzibur have issued strong and unequivocal statements that parents MUST vaccinate their kids.