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Source: http://www.24heures.ch/vaud/actu/face-flambee-epidemique-rougeole-precedent-2009-02-04
Google translation from French:
"We are dealing with an outbreak of measles unprecedented
MEASLES | Seventeen students of the school Steiner, Crissier to have contracted the disease. Yet mandatory reporting of cases to cantonal doctor was late, causing the spread of the epidemic. In any case, three other schools in Lausanne, in Bex and the Broye are also affected.
Julien Pidoux | 05.02.2009 | 00:04
Twenty-two cases of measles in the canton of Vaud, in just two days, while the rest of Switzerland recognizes fifty. The new cantonal doctor does not mince words: "We are dealing with an outbreak of Vaud unprecedented."
Services Masserey Eric are on a war footing. Since Tuesday, his colleagues back the agenda of children, to contact all the people they encountered during their contagious period. History to minimize the spread of this disease, which caused the death of a French girl of 12 years in Geneva, there is barely a week.
Fertile ground
It all started Tuesday, when the Steiner School, in Crissier, the doctor said that many district students have the measles. Meanwhile, management informs parents if their children are not vaccinated, they are subject to an eviction of 21 school days (the maximum incubation time of measles, read against this). Car Steiner School is a breeding ground for disease, since many parents of the establishment Anthroposophy opposed to vaccination (30% of students would be vaccinated, depending on the direction). "We leave the choice to parents, we give no deposit on vaccination, one way or the other, wished to clarify the Administrator Christine Blumenthal, who runs a school that runs the blow a little slowed.
Doctors fault
Seventeen students from the Ecole Steiner contracted the disease. Additional problem: the doctors of sick children should immediately report such cases to cantonal physician. This was not done, contrary to federal law on epidemics. They could not seem to be no penalty.
These children, contagious, the coup have had the opportunity to infect others, including their brothers and sisters. Not all enrolled at the Ecole Steiner, they then have time to visit their schools. Locale, the epidemic has become since cantonale.
Cases have been identified in the gymnasium of the inter Broye, at the gym de Beaulieu in Lausanne, and a panel of Bex. Three secondary outbreaks, where the disease has had time to spread, making its "traceability" more complicated. "It poses a real problem of control, which normally we do occasionally," says Eric Masserey. Additional problem: it is not known how many people are currently in incubation.
A disease that is not benign
The district doctor, a pediatrician by training, recalls that vaccination is the only way to protect against measles. So when he heard a mother whose child is at the Steiner School, said that measles is a mild illness - "I small, I was put in express my cousin who was sick, so I catch - he coughs. "This is an extraordinary risk-taking, I find this totally inconsistent. I saw the measles, I know what it can do on a child. This is demonstrated by what happened to this girl in Geneva. "
Google translation from French:
"We are dealing with an outbreak of measles unprecedented
MEASLES | Seventeen students of the school Steiner, Crissier to have contracted the disease. Yet mandatory reporting of cases to cantonal doctor was late, causing the spread of the epidemic. In any case, three other schools in Lausanne, in Bex and the Broye are also affected.
Julien Pidoux | 05.02.2009 | 00:04
Twenty-two cases of measles in the canton of Vaud, in just two days, while the rest of Switzerland recognizes fifty. The new cantonal doctor does not mince words: "We are dealing with an outbreak of Vaud unprecedented."
Services Masserey Eric are on a war footing. Since Tuesday, his colleagues back the agenda of children, to contact all the people they encountered during their contagious period. History to minimize the spread of this disease, which caused the death of a French girl of 12 years in Geneva, there is barely a week.
Fertile ground
It all started Tuesday, when the Steiner School, in Crissier, the doctor said that many district students have the measles. Meanwhile, management informs parents if their children are not vaccinated, they are subject to an eviction of 21 school days (the maximum incubation time of measles, read against this). Car Steiner School is a breeding ground for disease, since many parents of the establishment Anthroposophy opposed to vaccination (30% of students would be vaccinated, depending on the direction). "We leave the choice to parents, we give no deposit on vaccination, one way or the other, wished to clarify the Administrator Christine Blumenthal, who runs a school that runs the blow a little slowed.
Doctors fault
Seventeen students from the Ecole Steiner contracted the disease. Additional problem: the doctors of sick children should immediately report such cases to cantonal physician. This was not done, contrary to federal law on epidemics. They could not seem to be no penalty.
These children, contagious, the coup have had the opportunity to infect others, including their brothers and sisters. Not all enrolled at the Ecole Steiner, they then have time to visit their schools. Locale, the epidemic has become since cantonale.
Cases have been identified in the gymnasium of the inter Broye, at the gym de Beaulieu in Lausanne, and a panel of Bex. Three secondary outbreaks, where the disease has had time to spread, making its "traceability" more complicated. "It poses a real problem of control, which normally we do occasionally," says Eric Masserey. Additional problem: it is not known how many people are currently in incubation.
A disease that is not benign
The district doctor, a pediatrician by training, recalls that vaccination is the only way to protect against measles. So when he heard a mother whose child is at the Steiner School, said that measles is a mild illness - "I small, I was put in express my cousin who was sick, so I catch - he coughs. "This is an extraordinary risk-taking, I find this totally inconsistent. I saw the measles, I know what it can do on a child. This is demonstrated by what happened to this girl in Geneva. "