The White Dwelling mentioned on Friday that the U.S. has temporarily suspended flights of Afghan evacuees into the country after four measles cases amongst recent arrivals — in a switch it described as “out of an abundance of caution.”
“‘Operation Allies Welcome’ flights into the United States were temporarily paused on the quiz of the [Centers for Disease Control] and out of an abundance of caution due to the four identified cases of measles amongst Afghans who lately arrived in the United States,” White Dwelling Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
FORT MCCOY HIT BY MEASLES CASE AMID AFGHAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT EFFORT
She mentioned that folks are being quarantined and that the CDC has begun beefy contact tracing. Additionally, all arriving Afghans are required to be vaccinated from the disease as a condition of entry into the U.S.
The Associated Press had earlier reported that a “”successfully being questions of security” had shut down flights out of Qatar and Germany. There are virtually 10,000 evacuees on the U.S. defense pressure low in Ramstein, Germany.
Fox Records first reported on Tuesday that Citadel McCoy Navy Snide in Wisconsin, one in all a resolution of bases interested in processing Afghan refugees, had identified a case of the measles. An interior authorities electronic mail, considered by Fox Records, mentioned that the low confirmed a case of the measles on Sunday.
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“All of us that had been interested with the infected individual at low were isolated, and post-exposure prophylaxis and inoculations are in path of,” the label mentioned.
Individually, a senior U.S. authorities decent confirmed to Fox Records that officials identified a single measles case as part of what they called a noteworthy successfully being screening path of.
The Companies for Illness Keep watch over (CDC) describes measles as a “extremely contagious” virus that is seemingly to be unfold by coughing, sneezing, and by of us breathing vulgar air or touching infected surfaces after which their faces.
It says that the virus is so contagious that if one individual has it, up to 90% of the of us conclude to that individual who must not immune will also be infected, and that the virus can are living for up to 2 hours in an airspace even after an infected individual leaves the notify.
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In step with the CDC, Afghanistan has the seventh perfect resolution of measles cases in the arena.
On Friday, Psaki mentioned that the U.S. is also exploring efforts to vaccinate evacuees while they’re serene out of the country.
The Associated Press contributed to this legend.
