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According to Columbus Public Health, some 100 measles cases related to an outbreak in central Ohio through Monday of this week.
For this reason, doctors warn that measles can be serious for adults too, although most cases are for children under 5 years of age .
“Measles is a miserable disease,” said Dr. Matthew Exline, director of intensive care at OSU Wexner Medical Center. ” If you contract it after reaching the age of 15 years, you have a much higher risk of developing complications.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises children will receive 2 doses of the MMR (or MMR) vaccine: one between 12 and the 20 months and another, from 4 to 6 years old.
Dr. Exline explained that these serious complications include brain swelling that can result in hospitalization and lifelong brain damage or pneumonia that can also lead to hospitalization.
In addition, it ensures that people can have many disorders in their immune system that can have ramifications for years after contracting the disease.
Because measles is highly c contagious, doctors urge people to receive the MMR vaccine and pay attention to places of exposure.
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There are four places where people have been exposed to measles in the Columbus area since the last month: Meijer grocery store on Sawmill Road, a church on Cleveland Avenue, Polaris Mall and now the Dollar Tree store on Westerville Road.
It was also known that people were exposed in Northeast Ohio, according to Richland County Public Health, at the Richland Mall on 15 November.
For this reason, the Department of Richland County Health confirmed it was an exposure and there are no confirmed cases in people living in Richland County at this time.
“ One thing we are not prepared for, for those of us who have never really lived in an era when measles was widespread, it’s just that much more infectious than any other virus we are familiar with,” Dr. Exline said.
Columbus Public Health said the CDC will remain here for at least next week to assist in the investigation of the measles outbreak.
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