一人がはしかを発病したために１３０人がホテルで足止めらしい。どのホテルが知ってる人います？
head line: Japanese students quarantined in Banff
CALGARY — A field trip to Canada turned into a health education lesson for a group of Japanese students who are now quarantined in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff after a member of their tour became ill and is suspected of having measles.
The 130 tourists, including 10 or 11 adult supervisors, arrived in Alberta on Sunday and are being tested for immunity to measles while they are holed up in their hotel rooms.
Officials with Calgary Health Region hope to have test results by Tuesday, but in the meantime, they are also looking for anyone who may have been in contact with the infected female student.
So are officials with Vancouver Coastal Health who are trying to track down those on the tour group’s flight from Tokyo to Vancouver on May 24. The infected girl, who stayed behind in Vancouver after feeling sick, is now “very seriously ill,” said Judy MacDonald, the Calgary Health Region’s deputy medical officer of health.
Those who are not immune to the virus will be vaccinated, Dr. MacDonald said, but there is no specific treatment other than bed rest.
Symptoms include a high fever, cough and a red rash, but it can be deadly.
“Measles is a serious disease,” Dr. MacDonald said, “It is something that is very readily transmitted through the air to other individuals, but it’s easily prevented by being vaccinated against measles through measles, mumps, rubella vaccine.
“Serious cases of measles can occur when the virus causes complications such as pneumonia or encephalitis affecting the brain or meningitis,” she added.
According to the World Health Organization, measles infects 30 million people a year worldwide and leads to 454,000 deaths.
Japan, and Tokyo in particular, is currently coping with an outbreak of measles, which is likely where the student picked up the virus, Dr. MacDonald said.
While the disease has virtually been eliminated in Canada due to a childhood vaccination strategy, this country could face outbreaks brought in by foreigners.
A health study released earlier this year concluded that up to half of all new immigrants and refugees to Canada who haven’t undergone vaccination regimes are susceptible to infectious diseases such as measles.
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