Today's Fairfield Ledger http://www.ffledger.com :
"A Maharishi University of Management student who returned from
overseas with measles resulted in more than 2,500 hours of personnel
time and about $142,000 in costs to the state's health system,
according to the study published Tuesday in the July issue of
Pediatrics.
One of the study's authors, Dr. Gustavo Dayan, a medical
epidemiologist for the federal Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, told The Associated Press the study shows the costs
involved in containing a disease that could be prevented by a simple
childhood vaccination. The study was funded by the CDC.
In March 2004, six students who had not been vaccinated
contracted measles on a trip to India. Although the Iowa Department
of Public Health asked the students to stay in India until they were
no longer contagious, one student flew back to Iowa during his
infectious period.
Two other people were subsequently infected. One of those
people, a younger student, traveled with about 60 other children to
an academic competition in Grinnell that included about 1,000
students.
State and county health departments and hospitals worked for
about two months to contain the disease."
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