Jackson, a 4-year-old boy, is unable to get the MMR vaccine due to a severe alle
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Jackson, a 4-year-old boy, is unable to get the MMR vaccine due to a severe allergy to the antibiotic neomycin. Jackson will be starting kindergarten next year and his parents are trying to decide whether to send him to Oak Crest Elementary School, which has an 80% vaccination rate for MMR, or Sycamore Glen Elementary School, which has a 95% vaccination rate for MMR. 1. What would you advise them and why? Last week, Jackson and his family went to see a movie at a local theater. Two days later, a girl that had been sitting three rows behind them in the theater developed a rash and was diagnosed with measles. 2. Is Jackson at risk of contracting measles? Explain your reasoning. (For full credit, be sure to discuss how and when measles is transmitted.) 3. Jackson's 3-month-old breastfed sister was also in the theater. Is she at risk of contracting measles? Explain your reasoning.Explanation / Answer
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Q. 1 What would you advise them and why?
Answer: As it is discussed in the summary that Jackson didn’t got his MMR vaccination due to allergy. So he is more prone to the Measles, Mumps, & Rubella virus attack. I will advise to Jackson parents that they must send him to the Sycamore Glen Elementary School where the MMR vaccination rate is high i.e. 95%. Because in such high vaccinated environment the chances of getting measles infection to Jackson is low as compared to the another school where the vaccination percentage is 80%.
Q.2. Is Jackson at Risk of contracting measles? Explain your reasoning.
Answer: The Jackson is not vaccinated against Measles so his chance of getting an infection is much higher than others. As it is discussed that a girl sitting behind him got Measles infection so probability rate of Jackson getting an infection is very much high. As it is well known that the measles is a highly contiguous viral disease and it can spread by coughing and sneezing. Also, the virus can stay active in the air for 3 hours where an infected person cough or sneeze. Measles virus can spread even by touching the infected surface by naked hand then touch that hand to eyes or nose. It is highly contagious and the infection chances are 90% more to the unvaccinated persons. The incubation time of measles virus is 4 days means the rashes appear after 4 days of infection. Due to all these reasons such as lack of immunization, high contagious nature of measles virus and long viral incubation time it is very much possible that Jackson will surely get Measles rashes within 2-3 days.
Q.3. Jackson’s 3-month-old breastfed sister was also in the theater. Is she at risk of contracting measles? Explain your reasoning.
Answer: As it is discussed in the answer that Jackson’s 3-month-old sister is breastfed by her mother so the chances of getting the infection to the baby are less because the breastfeeding baby got passive immunity against measles from mother milk. The mother milk has antibodies against the measle virus which protects them from infection. This immunity is more strong and long-lasting (up to 12 months) when mother it self-infected with measles in her earlier lifespan. It is also seen that this immunity in the babies of mom who got measles immunity by vaccination is only up to 3 months of birth. So from above discussion, we can say that Jackson’s 3-month-old breastfed sister has no risk to get measles infection.
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