For some members of anAvengers : Endgameaudience in Fullerton , California last hebdomad , the danger was n’t determine to what was happening onscreen . According to areportin theLos Angeles Times , a woman lately taint with rubeola — but without measles symptom — may have exposed the crowd to the computer virus .
wellness functionary in Orange County announce that the woman , who lives in Placentia , had contract the disease while traveling overseas . Upon returning to California , she went to work and attended a midnight moving-picture show — in all probability a viewing ofAvengers : EndgameThursday evening — before coming down with rubeola symptoms . As a result , official are warning anyone who was at the AMC Theaters location on 1001 South Lemon Street in Fullerton from 11 p.m. April 25 to 4 a.m. April 26 to review their measles vaccine story and be aware of potential symptoms , such as a rubeola rash . People in the neighborhood of her workplace and the emergency department in Fullerton she visited are also being cautioned .
Measlescausesfever , rash , cough , and weak eyes , and can progress to more serious sickness like pneumonia and pregnancy complications . The computer virus is transmit through the melodic phrase via coughing or sneezing and can linger for up to two hr .
This is n’t California ’s first brush with the disease . university in the Los Angeles area have experience anoutbreak , with students and faculty members separate to remain home until their immunisation platter can be evaluated .
fit in to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , 704 multitude have beendiagnosedwith rubeola nationwide this class , the worst twelvemonth for the disease since 1994 .
In 1989 , the CDCrecommendedtwo doses of the MMR vaccine — which protects against measles , mumps , and German measles — when a child is between 12 and 15 months old and again between 4 to 6 years old . The vaccinum is thought to leave a 97 percent opportunity of protection against rubeola . Prior to that , a single - dose vaccinum was distinctive but it declare oneself less aegis . grownup bear before 1957 were in all probability exposed to the virus as children and are considered immunize . People who were not immunize as a child , shy of their condition , or at high risk due to working in health care or traveling internationally can stillreceivean MMR shot . They should hold in with their Dr. .
[ h / tLos Angeles Times ]
