Additional Measles Cases Found this Week
Last week I wrote about the 5 measles cases that we had identified as part of the nationwide Disneyland outbreak. Four of the AZ cases were among an unvaccinated Pinal County family that had visited Disneyland. This week over 1000 contacts were identified among our now 7 measles cases. Here’s a quick summary:
- One of the kids from the original […]
AZ Interventions to Improve Vaccination Rates
Arizona law requires kids to get certain vaccines in order to attend school unless a doctor signs a medical exemption form or a parent signs a religious or personal belief exemption form. There’s been an increasing number of parents who are signing personal belief exemption forms – putting herd mmunity […]
Unvaccinated Kids Come in Clusters
Courtesy: Journal of Pediatrics
Last week’s issue of the Journal Pediatrics sheds light on something that we see here in Arizona – that parental refusal and delay of childhood vaccines is clustered in certain communities. The study was done in California and found that the percentage of kids […]
Vaccines & the Social Contract
At the core – vaccines are really about community protection. Our public health system depends on a solid network of providers that are available to vaccinate kids for all of the nasty infectious diseases that have plagued humanity for millennium.
Five AZ Measles Cases from a Disneyland Exposure
By now you’ve probably heard about the measles outbreak associated with travel to Disneyland. CDC is reporting about 50 measles cases (in multiple states) who had been to Disneyland in late December. Arizona joined the list this week.
This week we had 5 measles cases associated with the Disneyland outbreak, one in […]
Alcohol Treatment & Interventions in Arizona
Substance abuse causes a host of bad public health outcomes including unintentional injuries, accidents, risk of domestic violence, medical problems, and even death…and alcohol abuse is at the top of the list. Drinking too much increases your chances of being injured or even killed. Alcohol is a factor in about 60% […]
