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Philadelphia health department warns of measles cluster among unvaccinated residents that originated with CHOP patient

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  1. DanBC
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    CHOP = Children's Hospital of Philadelphia A child returned from a country that had circulating measles. They were infected while there. They attended hospital. Children in rooms near this child...

    CHOP = Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    A child returned from a country that had circulating measles. They were infected while there. They attended hospital. Children in rooms near this child were then infected - one was too young to have been vaccinated. Another was not vaccinated by the parents. Those parents also declined post-exposure treatment that would have reduced the chance of infection. They were given a quarantine instruction. They chose to ignore that and took their child to day care in order to infect other children.

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