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I was just shopping tonight in Hilo Safeway Town and Saw a girl who appeared to have full blown Measles from Head to toe. She appeared to be around 20 something years old from what I could tell. Poor thing looked very sick. Isn't Measled highly conageous? Even airborne?
I know we are all vacinated as children but is that vaccine good for life. I'm pretty sure that's what she had. Is there some other illness that looks like this? Very scary...
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You can get general rashes all over that aren't measles. I broke out in a rash all over my chest and back with red bumps for no apparent reason a few years ago; no pain or itching, and they just went away in a week or so.
That said, I think there are quite a few anti-vaccine people around here. The hysteria promoted by them has been very bad, because the vaccine isn't 100% effective (and some people can't receive it), so having everyone possible vaccinated is important for herd immunity.
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I guess they are more into flock immunity ;-)
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Some of the diseases that cause that kind of rash are no longer contagious by the time the rash shows, others the rash lingers long after the period of contagion, so the young lady you saw may well have no longer been contagious if she had one of those. I do know chicken pox has been running through the elementary and middle school populations here on the east side for the last 9 months or so. Some kids get very mild symptoms so no one figures out they are spreading chicken pox around until too late, a friend of my daughter's infected a whole slumber party because her mom thought the pox were just bug bites!
Carol
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