BANGOR, Maine (WABI/NCS) – The Maine Center for Disease Control has confirmed 5 instances of measles in Maine.
On February sixth, officers confirmed the primary case of measles was present in an grownup in Penobscot County.
Maine CDC confirmed that it was the primary case of the virus in Maine since 2019.
Health officers say two doses of the vaccine that protects against measles are 97% effective at stopping an infection from the virus.
Dr. Sarah Nosal with the American Academy of Family Physicians says it’s uncommon however about 3% of individuals uncovered to measles can nonetheless catch the virus even when they’re totally vaccinated against the illness. However, she says getting each doses of the vaccine considerably lowers threat of being contaminated.
If you do get sick, Nosal says the sickness isn’t prone to be as extreme because it may very well be in an unvaccinated individual.
“At first it can look like a cold, you can get a fever and a cough, red eyes, runny nose, but as you get more sick, 1 in 4 individuals, children who get measles will end up hospitalized.”
There have been 910 confirmed measles instances reported to the CDC. Officials say 30 of these sufferers had been hospitalized.
“Doctors are afraid of measles. Measles is incredibly scary in the sense that it is so contagious, so if you haven’t been protected with a vaccine, you are very likely to get infected if anyone around you has the measles, ” stated Nosal.
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