Health officials at the Southern Nevada Health District confirmed that three adults acquired measles in connection with the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. These additional cases of measles in Las Vegas are not associated with the measles cases at DisneyLand nor the childcare center in Chicago, according to Reuters. The new cases of measles associated with the Vegas hotel and casino include two staff members and one patron.
A Las Vegas adult with measles included in an earlier count worked at Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House. That Emeril’s staff member was the third person in the Southern Nevada Health District to be reported with measles. That staff person is said to have been “under immunized,” because two doses of the MMR are required to be considered fully vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella.
That under vaccinated adult is once reported to have contracted the disease from an infant, who according to ABC News, “was too young to be vaccinated.” ABC News followed the case from the infant in an earlier report. A previous report indicated that the unvaccinated infant, the fifth person to get measles in the area since 2011, in Nevada actually got the measles from case number three, the adult who works at the Emeril’s restaurant within the MGM instead of the other way around which is the same account as that of the earlier Southern Nevada health official’s report.
“The patient is an infant. Officials say the baby got sick after being in contact with an infected employee who works at Emeril’s restaurant inside MGM Grand. Health district officials say customers that visited that restaurant between February fourth and the seventh could be at risk.”
ABC News also reported on the initial two cases of measles in Southern Nevada which were in Clark County; the very first person was a fully vaccinated teen.
“Clark County’s first confirmed case of the year occurred in a vaccinated high school student, and, to date, no additional cases of measles have been identified among classmates. The period of concern for developing disease from being exposed to that student has ended. A second case occurred in an unvaccinated adult who is unrelated to the student.”
The Southern Nevada Health District explained that people who are fully vaccinated with two doses of the MMR can still get the measles, but that people with two doses of the MMR are much less likely to get a measles infection.
According to CNN, these three new cases bring the total number of measles cases in the health district up to nine. In addition to these three new cases of measles, the Health District confirmed six earlier cases. The first six cases, as reported through separate press releases and news reports, are listed below.
- A fully immunized adolescent in Clark County, according to ABC News.
- An unvaccinated adult not related to adolescent, according to ABC News.
- An adult who was considered “under-immunized” having had only one dose of a measles vaccine, who worked at Emeril’s in Vegas, according to ABC News
- A young child who received a single dose of vaccine and is unrelated to the third case, according to ABC News video.
- An infant too young to have received the immunization and who is reported to be the source case for the three new Emeril’s at MGM Grand in Las Vegas related cases.
- An adult whose vaccination record is not known.
There are no reports of the vaccination statuses of the three newest measles cases out of Las Vegas, but all three of them (cases numbered seven, eight and nine) were under 55.
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What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas, But What If Its Measles? is an article from: The Inquisitr News
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