Flight Attendant, 43, Who Contracted Measles on Flight Dies After Battling Disease for 5 Months

[Lexy]

A flight attendant who contracted measles sadly died this week following a five-month battle with the infectious disease.

Rotem Amitai, a 43-year-old employee for El Al Airlines, passed away on Tuesday after contracting measles at the end of March and falling into a “deep” coma, The Washington Post reports.

Amitai was flying from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Israel around the time she began to show symptoms of the virus.

She was later hospitalized after developing encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain caused by the disease, according to the outlet.

Days after landing in Israel, the Israeli Ministry of Health released an alert about a measles patient on board an El Al flight from JFK into Israel on March 26 to 27, but did not mention specifically whether Amitai was exposed to the illness while on the aircraft.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/flight- ... 35027.html

[scemily526]

And she was fully vaccinated as a child....can you say 'vaccine failure'? How many more adults unknowingly have vaccine failure?

[Della]

How does one become an INTERNATIONAL flight attendant without having vaccine updates?

[scemily526]

How does one become an INTERNATIONAL flight attendant without having vaccine updates?

airlines are not required to keep their employees up to date on such things...and, even if they did, they'd have seen she was vaccinated prior, and let her go on her way regardless of whether her vaccine actually worked or not - which it didn't.

[Della]

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How does one become an INTERNATIONAL flight attendant without having vaccine updates?

airlines are not required to keep their employees up to date on such things...and, even if they did, they'd have seen she was vaccinated prior, and let her go on her way regardless of whether her vaccine actually worked or not - which it didn't.

Why aren't they? Don't you think boosters should be required for travelling internationally (or nationally)?

How would you feel about being served by an airplane personnel with a a big fat herpes simplex sore on their lip?

[Lemons]

And she was fully vaccinated as a child....can you say 'vaccine failure'? How many more adults unknowingly have vaccine failure?

Some vaccines require booster shots later in life. If parents who have no real problems in life didn't make ones up by not vaccinating their children she wouldn't have to worry about her vaccine no longer being effective.

[Maggie]

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How does one become an INTERNATIONAL flight attendant without having vaccine updates?

airlines are not required to keep their employees up to date on such things...and, even if they did, they'd have seen she was vaccinated prior, and let her go on her way regardless of whether her vaccine actually worked or not - which it didn't.

Why aren't they? Don't you think boosters should be required for travelling internationally (or nationally)?

How would you feel about being served by an airplane personnel with a a big fat herpes simplex sore on their lip?

They really should be. They should be required just like healthcare professionals. Or at the very least a titer run to see if they’re still immune. I know my MMR is useless after about 10 yrs and I have to get the full set of shots again.