Measles School free for the uninoculated

Measles: Unvaccinated people are not allowed to go to school
At a school in Marburg Hesse several students are suffering from measles. The local health authority has therefore ordered that people without safe immune protection may not enter the school building.

So far, eight students fell ill
A school in Marburg in Hesse is taboo because of several measles cases initially for people who are not proven to be immune to the infectious disease. According to the news agency dpa reports, according to the district Marburg-Biedenkopf so far eight students are ill. For this reason, only students, teachers and employees who have had two measles vaccines or can prove that they have already undergone the highly infectious disease are allowed to enter the school.

Restriction of access for the next few weeks
The prohibition on admission issued by the district health authority applies to classes nine to 13 up to and including Monday, 25 May and for the lower levels (classes one to eight) until the end of the month. "We're checking whether this deadline is sufficient or we need to adjust it if necessary," said a spokesman. Thus, this depends on the incubation period and when the last possible contact with a patient was. In recent months Berlin has been hit by a severe measles wave. Over 1,000 people were infected in the capital.

Measles are often dismissed as a childhood disease
Measles can still spread, as the stable vaccination rate of 95 percent of the population in Germany is not reached. Measles are dismissed by many people as a harmless childhood disease. But not only children, but also adults can become seriously ill with an infection with the virus. In most cases, a disease begins with fever, conjunctivitis, runny nose and cough. Due to the weakened immune system, an infection can also lead to complications such as otitis media or pneumonia and sometimes have life-threatening consequences such as meningitis. (Ad)