The employee at the McGill University Health Centre who contracted the measles — and who might have inadvertently exposed dozens of patients to the highly contagious virus for several days at the end of March — had received the standard two shots years earlier, an MUHC infectious-diseases specialist said Monday.
“We believe that the individual in question acquired the infection while on a trip to the Caribbean roughly three weeks before the start of his symptoms,” Lefebvre said. “We do not believe it was an acquisition from Montreal itself, and we do not believe we have any secondary infections as well.” The MUHC has monitored closely all its hospitalized patients who might have been exposed to the contagious employee, while sending letters to those who have returned home. To date, public-health authorities have not reported any additional infections.
Drouin praised the MUHC’s response to the exposure. Nonetheless, the incident has prompted the MUHC “to review its employee immunization strategies again in-depth continuous quality improvement,” Lefebvre said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Of course she had, so had my sister been vaccinated as a child and has had the measles 20 years when she just got a phase of it again. The government has been researching this phenomenon for some time now. There are different strains and adaptations but the scare tactics...
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