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FORTY-SEVEN MEASLES cases have been confirmed in Ireland so far this year, according to the latest figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
As of this morning, there are also 18 suspected cases currently under investigation.
Suspected cases of measles are tested in a laboratory, before being either officially confirmed as measles or denotified and several possible measles cases have been declassified in recent weeks.
Seven outbreaks have occurred so far in 2024, all of which occurred in private houses and involved between two and five cases in each outbreak.
Of the 47 confirmed cases this year, 21 are male, 24 are female, and the gender has not been recorded for two cases.
One case has been recorded among a toddler under 12 months, while ten cases have been confirmed among those aged 25-34.
Measles is a highly infectious disease that can cause serious complications.
Particularly vulnerable groups are children under one year of age, pregnant women, and people who are immunosuppressed.
A measles infection tends to start with cold-like symptoms that develop about 10 days after a person is infected, followed a few days later by a rash. Symptoms include:
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Why is measles suddenly newsworthy? I had it in the eighties, as did many many others. We survived. Why are you talking so much about it now? What is the agenda?
@YKwkSIqW: jaysus get over yourself, why does everything these days have to have an agenda? It’s a public health notification making people aware that cases of measles are on the rise ffs
@YKwkSIqW: You survived. What about the poor children who didn’t?
@YKwkSIqW: because there has been an upsurge in cases across Europe and there can be severe consequences for many who get it.
@CP: Stfu you sap
@YKwkSIqW: being your usual charming self. Well done
Why won’t the media draw the line between mass, unvetted immigration and the spread of disease?
It’s a biological fact, and has been for all of human history…just ask the Native Americans.
@Paul: Because if all of us were vaccinated there would be no problem.
@Paul: there was a large story in the media about this earlier in the year. All cases were Irish and 2 had recently returned from the UK. You can’t blame immigrants for everything, as much as you’d like to.
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: no need to project your hate on to me.
I’m not opposed to immigration, but people should be free of communicable diseases before allowed entry.
Remember the Covid travel bans ffs?
Thanks to antivaxx nuts.
@Alex: shame they can’t be all charged with attempted murder, or at least sectioned.
Along comes the Wakefield apologists
It’s absolutely shameful in this day and age that people leave their children unvaccinated due to proven disinformation.
It literally boils down to people preferring a dead child to an autistic one.
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