Am I like a total idiot for finding this story totally un-newsworthy? 11 kids in San Diego have had the measles and it's considered an epidemic. Back when I was a young tyke, it was taken for granted that every kid got measles. Check out the hysteria from the San Diego Tribune:
Five more children in San Diego have tested positive for measles, bringing to 11 the total number of patients in a monthlong outbreak that has spread to schools, grocery stores, the Del Mar Fairgrounds and Hawaii, county officials said yesterday.
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The measles outbreak is San Diego County's first since 1991. It began when a 7-year-old patient returned from Switzerland on Jan. 15 with what would later be confirmed as measles. He or she infected two siblings and at least four classmates. The 8-year-old patient identified yesterday is a classmate of the 7-year-old.
On Jan. 25, the 7-year-old's parents took the youngster to the Children's Clinic of La Jolla. The child may have coughed and sneezed in the office, thus infecting four other children.
Those four patients returned to the clinic between Feb. 5 and 8, possibly spreading the virus to 60 other children.
All of the 11 confirmed patients, from 10 months to 9 years old, were not vaccinated either because they were younger than 1 - the minimum age for measles inoculation - or because their parents objected to having them vaccinated, county officials said.
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Infection experts from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state Department of Health Services are working with more than 30 of San Diego County's employees.
These health officials are seeking prospective patients linked to the San Diego Cooperative Charter School in Linda Vista; Children's Clinic of La Jolla in Bird Rock; School of the Madeleine and the Alcott Elementary School Infant & Toddler Development Program, both in Clairemont; Baldwin Academy and Murray Callan Swim School, both in Pacific Beach; the fairgrounds; and the two grocery stores in Hillcrest.
Hawaiian health officials are contacting the roughly 250 passengers who may have been exposed to measles from an infected child aboard Hawaiian Airlines Flight 15, which left Lindbergh Field on Feb. 9. Also potentially affected are people who were at the airport's Terminal 2, Gate 41 between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. that day.


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