The largest measles outbreak in decades has reached San Antonio and San Marcos. Officials say an individual who tested positive for the virus in West Texas traveled to two major universities and one of the nation's busiest tourist attractions — the San Antonio River Walk.
Right? And why was this person going around while infected. Doesn’t measles have pretty visible symptoms? I just read the timeline and I was at the riverwalk the day after and the bucc-ee’s they were at 10 hours later. Thankfully I got re-immunized recently (2 years ago) so hopefully that’s a lot better than having been vaccinated as a kid.
If I understand correctly, measles can be very contagious 4 days before rashes appear (through respiratory droplets from coughing). I think a person could mistakenly think they just have a cold or flu (or Covid) before rashes appear. It can also have a ~12 day incubation period without symptoms (but I don’t think it’s very contagious before symptoms appear).
I was really hoping that area of the texas NM border was isolated enough that it would stay contained :/
Right? And why was this person going around while infected. Doesn’t measles have pretty visible symptoms? I just read the timeline and I was at the riverwalk the day after and the bucc-ee’s they were at 10 hours later. Thankfully I got re-immunized recently (2 years ago) so hopefully that’s a lot better than having been vaccinated as a kid.
Because these kinds of people are developmentally incapable of thinking about their actions beyond how it immediately impacts themselves
If I understand correctly, measles can be very contagious 4 days before rashes appear (through respiratory droplets from coughing). I think a person could mistakenly think they just have a cold or flu (or Covid) before rashes appear. It can also have a ~12 day incubation period without symptoms (but I don’t think it’s very contagious before symptoms appear).
This makes me want to get my titer drawn for sure.