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PBE rates have climbed steadily ever since, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health \u003ca title=\"California Department of Public Health Immunization page\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/pages/immunizationlevels.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">collects vaccination rates\u003c/a> and PBE rates at every kindergarten in the state with more than 10 students — both public and private schools. Further below, we’ve made it easy for you to look up your own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entering kindergarten children are required to be vaccinated against:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Polio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis (DTaP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hepatitis B\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Varicella (Chickenpox)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For years, Marin County has had the highest PBE rate in the Bay Area. In the 2013-2014 school year, the county's PBE rate was 7.57 percent. This school year, it declined to 6.45 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four other Bay Area counties have lower PBE rates than Marin -- and their opt-out rates also declined from last year, as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Santa Clara: 1.72 percent in 2013-2014 to 1.57 percent this year\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alameda: 1.78 percent to 1.54 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo: 2.26 percent to 1.85 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contra Costa: 2.32 percent to 1.90 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco County saw a slight increase in its PBE rate from 1.64 percent last year to 1.80 percent this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Find Any School in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up the personal belief exemption rate at your own school below. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By requiring them to talk to a physician or other health provider,\" Pan said, \"they can get more information and when they get that information, they feel more comfortable about getting their children vaccinated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition, the law likely catches people who might have been too busy to get to the doctor. \"In the past you could just sign before you could go to school,\" said Dr. Dean Blumberg of the UC Davis medical center who is involved in vaccine research. \"Now since you have to talk to your health provider to sign the form, you may as well -- since you're talking to the doctor -- get them vaccinated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PBE Rates Changed Over Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blumberg provided State of Health with data from a \u003ca title=\"https://cdc.confex.com/cdc/nic2010/webprogram/Paper22752.html\" href=\"https://cdc.confex.com/cdc/nic2010/webprogram/Paper22752.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control vaccine conference\u003c/a> showing historical rates of personal belief exemptions in California. Rates had been comparatively low, especially after the 1989-1991 measles epidemic when there were 17,000 cases of measles and 70 people died in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccine rates need to be 90 percent -- or higher -- depending on the disease to create what's known as \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">herd immunity\u003c/a>. That means that enough people are vaccinated to protect those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or whose immune system is compromised. This includes \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" target=\"_blank\">people being treated for cancer\u003c/a> or HIV patients and more. When vaccine rates are high, a disease introduced into a community cannot take hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials would not be as concerned about the average PBE rate statewide -- but the rate \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/18/bay-area-communities-are-home-to-clusters-of-people-refusing-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/18/bay-area-communities-are-home-to-clusters-of-people-refusing-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">hides clusters where PBE rates are significantly higher\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area there are geographic clusters of vaccine refusals above 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, California health officials are working to contain a measles outbreak that has reached 91 cases this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After nearly a decade of low PBE rates in the 1990s, they started to increase in 1998. That was the same year a study was published that claimed a link between the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and autism. The study was \u003ca title=\"http://www2.aap.org/immunization/families/mmr.html\" href=\"http://www2.aap.org/immunization/families/mmr.html\" target=\"_blank\">later debunked and retracted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the damage was done. PBE rates have climbed steadily ever since, until now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health \u003ca title=\"California Department of Public Health Immunization page\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/pages/immunizationlevels.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">collects vaccination rates\u003c/a> and PBE rates at every kindergarten in the state with more than 10 students — both public and private schools. Further below, we’ve made it easy for you to look up your own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Entering kindergarten children are required to be vaccinated against:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Polio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis (DTaP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hepatitis B\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Varicella (Chickenpox)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For years, Marin County has had the highest PBE rate in the Bay Area. In the 2013-2014 school year, the county's PBE rate was 7.57 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>Carl Krawitt has watched his son, Rhett, now 6, fight leukemia for the last 4½ years. For more than three of those years, Rhett has undergone round after round of chemotherapy. Last year, he finished chemotherapy, and doctors say he is in remission.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Do you want to help the family of a child with cancer? Make sure your own children are vaccinated, doctor says.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Now, there's a new threat: measles. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/07/nine-measles-cases-tied-to-disneyland-parks/\" target=\"_blank\">An outbreak tied to Disneyland has grown from 9\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/21/state-measles-cases-now-at-59-expect-more-2/\" target=\"_blank\">73 cases \u003c/a>in just two and a half weeks. Public health officials fear it will spread further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhett cannot be vaccinated, because his immune system is still rebuilding. It may be months more before his body is healthy enough to get all his immunizations. Until then, he depends on everyone around him for protection -- or what's known as \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">herd immunity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rhett lives in Marin, a county with the \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/21/marin-vaccinations/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/21/marin-vaccinations/\" target=\"_blank\">dubious honor of having the highest rate of \"personal belief exemptions\"\u003c/a> (PBE) in the Bay Area and among the highest in the state. This school year, 6.45 percent of Marin's kindergarteners have a PBE, which allows parents to lawfully send their children to school unvaccinated against communicable diseases like measles, polio, whooping cough and more. The statewide average is 2.50 percent.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Krawitt has just about had enough. \"It's very emotional for me,\" he said. \"If you choose not to immunize your own child and your own child dies because they get measles, OK, that's your responsibility, that's your choice. But if your child gets sick and gets my child sick and my child dies, then … your action has harmed my child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krawitt is taking action of his own. His son attends Reed Elementary in Tiburon, a school with a 7 percent PBE rate, nearly triple the statewide average. Krawitt had previously worked with the school nurse to make sure that all the children in his son's class were fully vaccinated. He said the school was very helpful and accommodating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23583\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/lookup.jpg\" alt=\"lookup\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\">\u003c/a>Now Krawitt and his wife, Jodi, have emailed the district's superintendent, requesting that the district \"require immunization as a condition of attendance, with the only exception being those who cannot medically be vaccinated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Krawitt provided me with Superintendent Steven Herzog's response. Herzog didn't directly address their query, instead saying: \"\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">We are monitoring the situation closely and will take whatever actions necessary to ensure the safety of our students.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, response to health emergencies rests with county health officers. During the current measles outbreak, we've already seen that unvaccinated students at Huntington Beach High School in Orange County \u003ca title=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-students-exposed-to-measles-oc-20150120-story.html\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-students-exposed-to-measles-oc-20150120-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">were ordered to stay \u003c/a>out of school for three weeks after a student there contracted measles. It's a way to contain an outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those steps were taken in the face a confirmed case at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I called Marin County health officer Matt Willis to see what he thought of keeping unvaccinated kids out of school even if there were no confirmed cases, he sounded intrigued. \"This is partly a legal question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was open to the idea and said he was going to check with the state to see what precedent there was to take such an action. Right now, there are no cases of measles anywhere in Marin and no suspected cases either. Still, \"if the outbreak progresses and we start seeing more and more cases,\" Willis said, \"then this is a step we might want to consider' -- requiring unvaccinated children to stay home, even without confirmed cases at a specific school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/188229275\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rhett has been treated at UCSF, and his oncologist there, Dr. Robert Goldsby, said that Rhett is likely at higher risk of complications if he were to get measles. \"When your immune system isn't working as well, it allows many different infections to be worse,\" he said. \"It's not just Rhett. There are hundreds of other kids in the Bay Area that are going through cancer therapy, and it's not fair to them. They can't get immunized, they have to rely on their friends and colleagues and community to help protect them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23648\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/pre-op-helping-doctors-12-6-10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-23648\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/pre-op-helping-doctors-12-6-10-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rhett Krawitt, just weeks after starting chemotherapy, in 2010. (Courtesy: Carl Krawitt)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhett Krawitt, just weeks after starting chemotherapy, in 2010. 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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Nell Greenfield-Boyce,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/26/368449371/dna-blood-test-gives-women-a-new-option-for-prenatal-screening\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/26/368449371/dna-blood-test-gives-women-a-new-option-for-prenatal-screening\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amy Seitz got pregnant with her second child last year, she knew that being 35 years old meant there was an increased chance of chromosomal disorders like Down syndrome. She wanted to be screened, and she knew just what kind of screening she wanted — a test that's so new, some women and doctors don't quite realize what they've signed up for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of test , called \u003ca title=\"http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Genetics/Noninvasive-Prenatal-Testing-for-Fetal-Aneuploidy\" href=\"http://www.acog.org/Resources-And-Publications/Committee-Opinions/Committee-on-Genetics/Noninvasive-Prenatal-Testing-for-Fetal-Aneuploidy\" target=\"_blank\">cell free fetal DNA testing\u003c/a>, uses a simple blood sample from an expectant mother to analyze bits of fetal DNA that have leaked into her bloodstream. It's only been on the market since October 2011 and is not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration — the FDA does not regulate this type of genetic testing service. Several companies now offer the test, including Sequenom and Illumina. Insurance coverage varies, and doctors often only offer this testing to women at higher risk because of things like advanced maternal age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that I initially heard about it through family and friends,\" says Seitz. \"They had had the option of it given to them by their doctors.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To her, it sounded great. She didn't want an invasive procedure like \u003ca title=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003921.htm\" href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003921.htm\" target=\"_blank\">amniocentesis\u003c/a> or \u003ca title=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003406.htm\" href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003406.htm\" target=\"_blank\">chorionic villus sampling\u003c/a> (CVS). Those are considered the gold standard for prenatal genetic testing, but doctors must put a needle into the womb to collect cells that contain fetal DNA, which means a small risk of miscarriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't interested in going as far as getting an amniocentesis because of the risk associated with that,\" she explains, \"and so when I heard about this test, that was part of the reason that I was most interested in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huge Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new way of testing fetal DNA seemed to have already become fairly common where Seitz used to live, in Washington, D.C. But she had recently moved to Alabama, and the clinic she went to there wasn't as familiar with it — although when she talked to her doctor, she learned they'd just had a visit from a company's sales representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was a fairly new test for them at that point, but she was interested in pursuing it further to see what needed to be done,\" Seitz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz got her blood drawn last July, becoming one of hundreds of thousands of pregnant women who've opted for this new kind of test instead of the more traditional, invasive ones. Doctors say the impact has been huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those of us in the field who do diagnostic procedures like CVS and amnio have seen a drastic decrease in the number of those procedures that are being performed,\" says Dr. Mary Norton, an expert on maternal-fetal medicine and genetics at the U.C. San Francisco. \"Places are reporting doing fewer than half the number of procedures that were being done previously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, things have changed so quickly that it may be hard for doctors and patients to know what they're dealing with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still new and it's quite different than previous genetic testing that's been available,\" says Norton. \"It's quite a different paradigm, if you will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An invasive test like amniocentesis or CVS lets doctors get a complete picture of the chromosomes and a solid diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until the new testing technology came along, the only less invasive option was for an expectant mother to get an \u003ca title=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ultrasound.html\" href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ultrasound.html\" target=\"_blank\">ultrasound,\u003c/a> plus have her blood tested for specific proteins. This can reveal if there's an increased risk of certain disorders, but it's not very accurate and produces a lot of false alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Less Invasive, But Beware of Limitations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311037\" href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1311037\" target=\"_blank\"> Studies\u003c/a> have shown that the new fetal DNA tests do a better job, says Norton. They're less likely to flag a normal pregnancy as high risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're much more accurate than current screening tests, but they are not diagnostic tests in the sense that amniocentesis is,\" says Norton, \"and so I think that has led to some confusion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the newer blood tests do look at fetal DNA, they can't give a definitive answer like an amniocentesis can because they're analyzing scraps of fetal DNA in the mother's blood that are all mixed up with her own DNA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norton says when women get worrisome results from one of these new tests and are referred to her center, they sometimes don't understand why doctors are offering a follow-up amnio \"because they were under the impression that this was as good as an amnio.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is concerned that some people might end a pregnancy without getting confirmatory testing, and points to\u003ca title=\"http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2814%2900818-7/abstract\" href=\"http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2814%2900818-7/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"> one study \u003c/a>last year that found a small number of women did that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's at least some evidence that it's happening to a greater degree than I think many of us are comfortable with,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tests are being used more and more widely. Some worry that the companies' websites and marketing materials don't make the limitations clear enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Dr. Lee Shulman doesn't see it that way. He's an obstetrician and geneticist at Northwestern University in Chicago who has consulted for a couple of the testing firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Patients need to understand that while this is better, it is not a diagnostic test, and I think the companies have done a great job in putting this material out,\" he says. \"Whether or not clinicians use this material and take it to heart and use it for patient counseling is a different story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the technology is so new that a lot of doctors have no experience with it, and consumers need to understand that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the patient, if the couple, are not getting the answers, not getting the information they feel comfortable with, they need to seek out prenatal diagnostic centers, maternal fetal specialists, clinical geneticists, who may have more experience,\" says Shulman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, here's one thing that might turn out to be a little more complicated than would-be parents might expect. Along with screening for the common chromosomal disorders, companies offer parents the chance to learn their baby's sex — weeks before it's clear on a sonogram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many women are very excited by the idea that as part of their blood testing, they could find out pretty definitively if the baby is a boy or a girl,\" says Dr. Diana Bianchi, an expert on prenatal diagnostics at Tufts University School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they may not realize, she says, is that the test will also determine whether there's something abnormal about the sex chromosomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Approximately 1 in 700 pregnancies there's an extra X or extra Y,\" she says, noting that these are mild conditions that would normally go undetected, unless a woman had an invasive test like an amnio. Some babies with these conditions grow up into adulthood and never know they have them, unless they face a symptom like infertility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Seitz, in Alabama, thought it was a bonus that getting this new blood test would tell her if she was having a boy or a girl. But it actually didn't do that, because of a paperwork glitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The box for sex got unchecked somewhere along the way, so we weren't able to find it out from the test,\" says Seitz, who learned from an ultrasound that she was having a girl. The results she did get from the fetal DNA test were reassuring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't interested in going as far as getting an amniocentesis because of the risk associated with that,\" she explains, \"and so when I heard about this test, that was part of the reason that I was most interested in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huge Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new way of testing fetal DNA seemed to have already become fairly common where Seitz used to live, in Washington, D.C. But she had recently moved to Alabama, and the clinic she went to there wasn't as familiar with it — although when she talked to her doctor, she learned they'd just had a visit from a company's sales representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it was a fairly new test for them at that point, but she was interested in pursuing it further to see what needed to be done,\" Seitz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz got her blood drawn last July, becoming one of hundreds of thousands of pregnant women who've opted for this new kind of test instead of the more traditional, invasive ones. Doctors say the impact has been huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those of us in the field who do diagnostic procedures like CVS and amnio have seen a drastic decrease in the number of those procedures that are being performed,\" says Dr. Mary Norton, an expert on maternal-fetal medicine and genetics at the U.C. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/495311669-e1422076915312.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23614\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/495311669-640x456.jpg\" alt=\"A dose of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, known commonly as MMR. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dose of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, known commonly as MMR. 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Can people who have been vaccinated against the measles still get it? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the confirmed measles cases in California, at least five are people who were fully vaccinated. Experts aren't exactly sure why this is the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No vaccine is 100 percent effective,\" said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. The measles vaccine comes close -- it protects 99 out of 100 people, but that's \"one percent of a lot of people,\" she said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. What are the symptoms of measles?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care practitioners often refer to measles' symptoms as \"the three C's\": cough, coryza (runny nose) and conjunctivitis (red, watery eyes). High fever can also accompany these symptoms. After these symptoms are present, a rash appears on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given how common coughs and runny noses are, measles can be tough to tell apart from other infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The child looks ill,\" said Maldonado. \"Some children can have these symptoms and not feel super sick, but these children are definitely not feeling well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. How is measles spread? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is airborne in \"very, very small droplets,\" said Maldonado. How small? As small as 5 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohiogt.com/pe/micron.html\" target=\"_blank\">microns\u003c/a>. These droplets can take as long as two hours to drop to the ground, meaning that a classroom or a doctor's exam room where an infected child visits can remain infectious for up to two hours after that child leaves the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with measles are infectious starting four days before the rash starts -- during the time when they have cough and runny nose, similar to a cold -- and continuing for four days after it appears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187547647&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Should I get a booster shot just to be safe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an adult and you know you did not have the second dose of the vaccine, Maldonado suggests getting a booster. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. What are the symptoms of measles?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health care practitioners often refer to measles' symptoms as \"the three C's\": cough, coryza (runny nose) and conjunctivitis (red, watery eyes). High fever can also accompany these symptoms. After these symptoms are present, a rash appears on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given how common coughs and runny noses are, measles can be tough to tell apart from other infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The child looks ill,\" said Maldonado. \"Some children can have these symptoms and not feel super sick, but these children are definitely not feeling well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. How is measles spread? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is airborne in \"very, very small droplets,\" said Maldonado. How small? As small as 5 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohiogt.com/pe/micron.html\" target=\"_blank\">microns\u003c/a>. These droplets can take as long as two hours to drop to the ground, meaning that a classroom or a doctor's exam room where an infected child visits can remain infectious for up to two hours after that child leaves the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People with measles are infectious starting four days before the rash starts -- during the time when they have cough and runny nose, similar to a cold -- and continuing for four days after it appears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187547647&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Should I get a booster shot just to be safe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an adult and you know you did not have the second dose of the vaccine, Maldonado suggests getting a booster. If you are not sure about your vaccination history, your doctor can do a blood test to check your immunity levels. But what's easier is to go ahead and get the booster. Even if it turns out to be an extra shot, it won't hurt you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people born before 1957 have probably had the disease and are immune to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Pan, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County of Public Health\u003c/a>, says that if you received your first vaccination shot between 1963 and 1967 you may want to talk to your doctor as there have been instances of \"breakthrough infections\" in adults who received their vaccines during that period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CDC\u003c/a> recommends children get the first of two measles vaccines between 12-15 months of age. What if my child is less than a year old? Can we still vaccinate her?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many countries with highter exposure rates children do get vaccinated as young as 3 to 6 months, but \"we know that the vaccine doesn't work that well at that age,\" Maldonaldo said. The optimal time for an immune response to the vaccine starts at 12 months of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measles vaccine can be given to kids as young as six months if they will be travelling abroad or parents are concerned because of an outbreak. But because it is unclear how well the measles vaccine administered to young infants works over the long haul, Maldonado says that parents should follow up with the complete two dose vaccine after the child is 12 months old.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/84933742-e1421892431232.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-23586\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/01/84933742-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Five Disney staff members are among California's cases. (David McNew/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five Disneyland staff members are among California's cases. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, 1/26:\u003c/strong> The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/Measles.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/Measles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">said Monday that California now has 73\u003c/a> confirmed cases of measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Friday, 1/23:\u003c/strong> The CDPH said Friday that 68 Californians have confirmed cases of measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Wed. 1/21:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State health officials report \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/Measles.aspx\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/Measles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">59 confirmed cases\u003c/a> of measles in nine counties. The patients range in age from 7 months to 70 years. The California Department of Public Health has linked 42 of these cases to people who visited Disneyland or Disney's California Adventure Park. Initially, cases were linked to people who visited the parks in mid-December, but there are more confirmed cases who visited the parks in January while infectious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outbreak has spread beyond California with seven cases in Utah, Washington, Colorado and Oregon. Mexico has also confirmed a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccination status is known for 34 of the California patients. State officials say that 28 were not vaccinated at all, one was partially vaccinated and five were fully vaccinated. (Six of the unvaccinated were babies, too young to be vaccinated.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Devastating Consequences\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Measles is not a trivial illness,\" said state epidemiologist Dr. Gil Chavez. \"It can be very serious with devastating consequences.\" Those consequences include pneumonia, encephalitis, and even death. Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, 500 people a year died of the disease nationwide. In the current outbreak, 25 percent of people with measles have been hospitalized.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1989-1991, a measles epidemic swept California and other places around the U.S. There were 17,000 cases in California, and 70 people died. In Philadelphia, nine children died in just three months. \"The city was in a panic,\" Dr. Paul Offit of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told me, \"I saw children die of measles dehydration … measles encephalitis, measles can kill you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By county, the case numbers are as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Alameda 5\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>L.A. County 12\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Orange 20\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Riverside 4\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Bernardino 3\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Diego 10\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Mateo 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Clara 1\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ventura 1\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Chavez stressed that Disneyland was a safe place to go -- as long as you are vaccinated. \"If you are not vaccinated, stay away from Disneyland,\" he said. The problem is not with Disneyland itself, but any place where large numbers -- including people from foreign countries -- congregate. Chavez described Disneyland staff as being helpful and \"quite concerned\" about the outbreak. Five Disneyland staff members are among the 59 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187317626&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, but can still be reintroduced if someone from another country is infected and travels to the U.S. -- or an unvaccinated person in the U.S. travels abroad and brings the illness back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measles is a\u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> highly infectious, airborne illness\u003c/a>. It starts off with fever as high as 105 degrees, followed by symptoms that resemble a cold -- a cough and runny nose. The hallmark of measles is a red rash that appears first on the face and upper neck, then spreads to the rest of the body. If someone with measles coughs or sneezes, droplets of virus can live on surfaces up to two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the press call with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Kathleen Harriman with the California Department of Public Health described published case reports of a person with measles at a basketball game -- and people across the court became infected, \"because the virus can float and hang out in the air for a long, long time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Chavez urged everyone who was not vaccinated to \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html\" target=\"_blank\">get immunized\u003c/a>. The first dose of vaccine, called MMR as it protects against measles, mumps and rubella, is given at 12-15 months of age. The second dose is given at age 4-6. Most people who get the vaccine do not experience side effects, but the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#mmr\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#mmr\" target=\"_blank\">most common ones \u003c/a>are fever and a mild rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were born before 1957, you are presumed to be immune to measles, because the disease was so widespread before the introduction of the vaccine. For years, only one dose was recommended, it protects 95 percent of people. The second dose was recommended starting in 1991. If you don't know your vaccine status, Harriman said you can safely get the MMR vaccine -- if it's an extra dose, it won't hurt you, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Related:\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/09/11/vaccine-opt-out-rate-doubled-in-7-years-look-up-your-school-online/\" target=\"_blank\">Look Up Your School's Vaccine Opt-Out Rate Online\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local health officers in counties affected are busy tracing those who infected patients have been in contact with. Dr. Erica Pan, deputy health officer of Alameda County, says the county has shifted resources from ebola preparedness to contact tracing for measles. Last year there were four cases of measles in Alameda County, she said, \"but we had 400 contacts to investigate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measles outbreak comes after years of increase of parents refusing vaccines for their children. From the 2007-2008 to 2013-2014 school years, the rate of kindergarten parents choosing the \"personal belief exemption\" to refuse vaccines doubled. While the statewide rate of personal belief exemptions reached 3.15 percent, geographic clusters had \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/18/bay-area-communities-are-home-to-clusters-of-people-refusing-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/18/bay-area-communities-are-home-to-clusters-of-people-refusing-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">significantly higher opt-out rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that steady increase in vaccine refusals was halted with the current school year -- likely due to a \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/08/23/new-requirement-for-vaccine-exemption-passed-by-senate/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/08/23/new-requirement-for-vaccine-exemption-passed-by-senate/\" target=\"_blank\">new state law\u003c/a>. This school year is the first when parents who chose to opt out needed to meet first with a health care provider to discuss vaccines and vaccine preventable illnesses. The goal is to dispel misinformation and fear of vaccines. The opt-out rate dropped from 3.15 to 2.54 percent, nearly a 20 percent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change in vaccine refusals may be too late for this outbreak, but state officials are nonetheless pleased. \"That may change the number of people opting not to vaccinate out of pure misinformation,\" Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Chavez described Disneyland staff as being helpful and \"quite concerned\" about the outbreak. Five Disneyland staff members are among the 59 cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/187317626&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, but can still be reintroduced if someone from another country is infected and travels to the U.S. -- or an unvaccinated person in the U.S. travels abroad and brings the illness back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measles is a\u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/measles/faqs-dis-vac-risks.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> highly infectious, airborne illness\u003c/a>. It starts off with fever as high as 105 degrees, followed by symptoms that resemble a cold -- a cough and runny nose. The hallmark of measles is a red rash that appears first on the face and upper neck, then spreads to the rest of the body. If someone with measles coughs or sneezes, droplets of virus can live on surfaces up to two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the press call with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Kathleen Harriman with the California Department of Public Health described published case reports of a person with measles at a basketball game -- and people across the court became infected, \"because the virus can float and hang out in the air for a long, long time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Chavez urged everyone who was not vaccinated to \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/mmr.html\" target=\"_blank\">get immunized\u003c/a>. 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The goal is to dispel misinformation and fear of vaccines. The opt-out rate dropped from 3.15 to 2.54 percent, nearly a 20 percent decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change in vaccine refusals may be too late for this outbreak, but state officials are nonetheless pleased. \"That may change the number of people opting not to vaccinate out of pure misinformation,\" Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The subjects who had read from the devices took longer to fall asleep, slept less restfully and performed worse on cognitive tests the next day compared to those who had read paper books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2015/01/neon.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73693\" src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2015/01/neon-640x358.png\" alt=\"neon\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2015/01/neon2.png\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>It’s not just the chemical impact of electric light on our bodies that can be harmful, scientists say, but the way it enables us to be active any time of day or night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Electric lighting allows us to stay up later, but we still get up early, so we are scrunching our sleep,” said Stanford professor Jamie Zeitzer, a sleep researcher who is preparing an undergraduate course on the historical impact of electric light on society. “I do think our use of electric lighting has long-term consequences for our health,” he added. “But what the consequences are, we don’t yet know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73701\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2015/01/Goltzius_Saenredam_Night-252x360.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73701 size-large\" src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2015/01/Goltzius_Saenredam_Night-252x360.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Ekirch discovered hundreds of references to segmented sleep, including this Roger Ekirch says this 1595 engraving by Jan Saenredam.\" width=\"252\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Ekirch discovered hundreds of references to segmented sleep, including \u003ca href=\"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goltzius_Saenredam_Night.jpg\">this 1595 engraving\u003c/a> by Jan Saenredam. 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