[zephyr-announce] zephyr dev camp attendees FYI (Fwd: Measles Incident)

[Kevin Riggle]

Short version: Mark Eichin, one of our attendees, works in the same 
office building as someone who's believed to be contagious with measles.

Unlikely to become anything, of course, but Now You Know.

- Kevin, for zephyr-organizers


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From: Mark Eichin <eichin at thok.org>
To: zephyr-organizers <zephyr-organizers at mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:01:16 -0500
Subject: Measles Incident (please forward to zephyr-dev-camp attendees)

This? My building - they're on the 7th floor, we're on the 11th - and
anecdotally everyone in my office (including me) has been vaccinated at
least once... but You Should Know, since the exposure was two weeks ago
(and I only found out yesterday.)  _Mark_

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/26983816/detail.html

Health officials said anyone who visited the building between Feb. 7 and
Feb. 10 may have been exposed. The woman also rode the MBTA and visited
three clinics while she was contagious, officials said.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/24/boston_works_to_contain_measles_case/

BOSTON-Boston public health officials are trying to contain a possible
measles outbreak after an employee of the French consulate came down
with the infectious disease earlier this month.

About 80 people who work in the same office building as the consulate
employee were vaccinated Wednesday, but that is just a fraction of the
up to 2,000 people who work in the building.

Boston Public Health Commission Dr. Anita Barry says the woman also came
into contact with people while riding the subway to work and at a
community health center where she sought treatment.

So far, the consulate worker, in her 20s and believed to be on a
short-term internship, is the only person to fall ill with the disease.

Symptoms include a cough, runny nose, fever and a rash.
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Kevin Riggle (kevinr at free-dissociation.com) 
http://free-dissociation.com