Leaving the country? Add travel vaccines to your packing list
Child with measles. [Photo by http://phil.cdc.gov/phil_images/20030825/1/PHIL_4497_lores.jpg, via WikiCommons]
Summer isn’t over yet and if your plans include visiting another country, take steps to protect yourself from potential illness, and get your travel vaccines today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends all eligible international travelers receive the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, regardless of destination.
Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Immunization Coordinator Melinda McLarin, R.N. said, “We have seen a drastic rise in measles cases globally in recent years and most measles cases seen in the U.S. result from international travelers bringing the disease back home when they return. Travelers should check their immunization records to be sure they have the recommended two doses of MMR vaccine prior to their departure. Those traveling with young children should be aware that infants aged 6 to 11 months need to get an early dose of MMR at least two weeks before heading out.”
DHHS’s Public Health Clinic offers travel vaccines, including MMR. “It’s never too early to start planning for your travel immunization needs. Once you have an itinerary, make an appointment at the clinic or with your health care provider to discuss any recommended vaccines,” McLarin said, adding that most vaccines should be received a few weeks or up to a month before potential exposure.
Travelers heading to countries where viruses like Zika and Dengue are more common should take precautions to avoid bug bites–there are no vaccines or medications to prevent these diseases. The CDC recommends using EPA-registered insect repellants like DEET, Picaridin or oil of lemon eucalyptus to protect against mosquito bites. Wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants and using mosquito netting can also help prevent exposure.
Those traveling to areas with malaria, which is also spread by bug bites, should talk to their primary care providers about preventative medications they can take to reduce their risk.
Check the CDC’s website at www.cdc.gov/travel for more traveler safety recommendations and to check current travel advisories for your intended destination.
Vaccine prices are subject to change. Payment is due at the time of service. The clinic accepts cash, checks and credit cards.
For more information or to make an appointment, call the Public Health Clinic at 707-268-2108. The clinic is located at 529 I St. in Eureka.
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Most cases of measles in the US are not from people going on vacation and returning, Humboldt HHS person. And you know it and are lying. They are from border jumpers, none of whom have ever been vaccinated, entering this country illegally. The gaslighting has got to stop. In fact, if McClarin is so set in her view, she should be made to house several border jumping families from equatorial Africa and the Middle East who are unvaccinated, in her home. But she would never do that, would she, because she doesn’t want her family to get exposed to some foreign disease which has no vaccination. Maybe Faucis sandfly experiments on Beagles in Tunisia had a purpose after all. They do eat the brains of living beings. The charade continues…..even in Humboldt.
OMFG
give it a rest ffs
You forgot to include proof of your claim- again.
The astonishing number of downvoters who do not believe that claims need to be supported by evidence might provide some insight as to why a preventable disease like measles is making a comeback.
ALI did provide some insight. You just don’t like it.
Most cases of measles in the US are not from people going on vacation and returning,
They provided an opinion. As you can see below, in just one of the outbreaks, the biggest, it was indeed people going on vacation (or visiting family or whatever) that brought measles back to the US.
The largest outbreak was in 2019 and of the 1249 cases known, 943 were limited to the Orthodox Jewish communities of New York and New Jersey states. That year (and the previous year) there was a large outbreak in Israel with the Ultra-Orthodox being especially hard hit (it’s believed to have been brought to Israel from Ukraine). Returning travelers from Israel are believed to have spread it in NY.
You want to call them “border jumpers”? I’d call them unvaccinated international travelers returning home with measles.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6840e2.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6819a4.htm
I happen to be from Mexico and I know they give vaccinations for free, I do not know about Central America,though I imagine they do also. I doubt that the poor from the middle east and africa are flying to Mexico to cross the border. Vaccinations are common place everywhere in the world, only in remote areas would vacinations not be given. There has been an anti-vax movement since the early 2000s so it is expected that it would take time for these diseases to come back, but they are, now just wait fo the serious ones to come back. Keep blaming the immigrants for everything, this has nothing to do with the anti-vax movement in the US or around the world that has been happening.
Please talk to someone.
Too many vaccines, causing more problems than preventing, youtube ceo does of turbocancer at 56yo two years after getting series of covid shots
Remember Dana Reeves? She was the wife of Christopher Reeves. She died about 18 months after he passed away. Of lung cancer. She was 44.
https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/lung-cancer-never-smokers#:~:text=Lung%20cancer%20is,cancer%20in%20smokers.
Most people who develop lung cancer have a history of tobacco smoking, but 10% to 20% of people who develop lung cancer have never smoked. Lung cancer in never smokers occurs more frequently in women and at an earlier age than lung cancer in smokers.
Some people rely on neither facts nor logic to form a belief.
Since the vast majority of people got COVID vaccinations over the past several years, conspiracists will be able to blame almost anything on a person having been recently vaccinated.
Oh my my. It’s been three years of this plandemic in place. The unvaxxed should have been all dead by now. But hey, just take one for team Pfizer who pay fines instead of being dismembered for criminal drug pushing and has no liability if you get maimed in the process of mRNA genetic therapy shots.
Check this one out from last year…you might not feel anything till…
Assessment of Myocardial ¹⁸F-FDG uptake at PET/CT in Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients (Published Journal Radiology Sept. 2023)
T. Nakahara, Y. Iwabuchi, et. Al
Measured ¹⁸F-FDG uptake with PET scans. (positron emission tomography (PET)
Study shows myocardial damages with uptake.
Included 303 nonvaxxed and 700 vaxxed.
Vaxxed had overall higher myocardial FDG uptake compared to nonvaxxed.
The uptake was observed in patients imaged in four date ranges. 1-30 days, 31-60 days. 61-120 days and 121-180 days after second vaccination, with increased ipsilateral axillary uptake in vaccinated vs. nonvaccinated patients.
Editor Emeritus, Dr. Bluemke in editorial noted “The main results…for asymptomatic patients vaccinated for COVID-19 before PET had about a 40% greater radiotracer activity in the myocardium than unvaccinated individuals. (Statistically) The P value was low, less than .0001, translated to only one time out of 10,000 would these results occur by chance.”
This is suggesting that mild myocardial inflammation could be more common than expected. F-FDG uptake was higher in all vaccinated quartiles with age adjustments. Further, the myocardial SUVmax (g/ml) does not recover with time and was even above the level on the unvaccinated in the 40 patients who only received one dose.
Original ResearchFree Access.
Yet this correlation with smoking sorta short circuits understanding of the causes of the disease. It tends to be an easy out for the purveyors of many dangerous chemicals we get exposed to. For one thing, smoking was so common place it’s hard to separate anybody in the older generations from second hand smoke. I’m only 48, and remember cigarette smoke in restaurants and airplanes. My grandmother in law had lung cancer, never smoked. The doctors signed it off as exposure to second hand smoke, because Pop smoked a cigar outside on Friday evening. So a tangential exposure, ignoring her young life in the packing sheds and orchards around Stockton, ignoring any chemical exposures as a young wife of a Serviceman in Hawaii in the ’50s, ignoring her new house purchase in the ’60s in a tract surrounded by orchards, ignoring any accounting of the volume of hair spray used over 75 years, etc. The second hand smoke was it. Case closed!
if you live within a 1/2 mile of a freeway/highway current exposure to tire byproducts, and exhaust, is as bad or worse. 25 years ago, asbestos brake and clutch linings exposure was definitely worse. i remembering the health dept. saying it was equivalent to 2 packs a day. a lot of ‘i need to tax you so i can save you mentality’ involved here also.
Out of all the pics to choose from showing measles, and you have to use that one?
Yes, not appreciated
Had measles as a child…not as bad as that. Calamine lotion and baking soda cool baths. Got me out of school for a week!
Nope.