Measles Outbreak In 6 Israeli Cities: 4 Children In Intensive Care, 1 On ECMO

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Four unvaccinated children are hospitalized in intensive care units due to measles—one of them connected to an ECMO machine, which simulates heart-lung function.

The Health Ministry announced on Monday evening that babies aged six to eleven months can now receive the measles vaccine at family health clinics (Tipat Chalav) without an appointment—before visiting areas with active outbreaks or if they have social or family connections in those areas.

Until now, the additional early vaccination was recommended only for babies living in affected communities.

The ministry noted that an early dose of the measles (MMR) vaccine provides 70–85% protection against the disease and therefore strongly recommends that parents of babies in this age group vaccinate their children.

It is important to note that this early dose will not count as part of the two standard doses required in the Health Ministry’s routine vaccination program—given at one year of age and in first grade.

According to the Health Ministry, the city of Harish has now joined the active measles outbreak map, alongside Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, Modi’in Illit, and Nof HaGalil. Special measles vaccination stations have been established in these cities to strengthen immunization efforts, with no prior appointment required.

As of Monday, 29 measles patients are hospitalized, most of them unvaccinated children under the age of six. Among them, five are in intensive care, four of whom are unvaccinated children. One patient is connected to an ECMO machine, and one is a patient whose vaccination status is unknown.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

11 Responses

  1. Oh, and I forgot to mention: Yes, this has a LOT to do with “Haredim” – with TARGETING the “Haredim,” actually. The intense vax campaigns with live measles vaccines which are fueling the outbreak are in the frum communities ONLY, and as per a doctor inside the system, the vaccine given in the frum communities is NOT the same one given to a child in a secular community who comes in for a well visit. I will repeat to make this very clear: a doctor with inside information informed us that the specific live MMR-V shot they are dosing the frum children with is not being given to the non-Haredim.

  2. It is Hatzalas Nefashos to tell the TRUTH – the government CAUSED the measles outbreak by months of an intense measles VACCINE campaign with the LIVE measles vaccine. The more vaccines given, the more children become carriers and the more become sick.
    At the same time, the government outlawed ALL measles treatment outside of the hospital. Do you remember what happened when no early treatment was offered for covid in 2020, just “stay at home until you have trouble breathing and then go to the hospital and get put on a ventilator”? Well, that’s the equivalent of what they’re doing now, but to CHILDREN.

  3. Is it any wonder that many children end up in the hospital, inflating the numbers of hospitalized?
    Tragically, the government is to blame here in every way. NOT offering children lifesaving early treatment is the reason that there are children on respirators.

  4. Another critical piece of information from on-the-ground in Eretz Yisroel is that a child who got the measles shot recently ended up in the ICU as a direct result of life threatening illness following the measles shot.

  5. I have been attempting to post the easy and effective early measles treatments repeatedly and my comment is not being allowed. Why is this?

  6. 2. Zofran for nausea and vomiting. 3. HydroShot drink raises oxygen level. 4. IV rehydration is lifesaving and can also raise oxygen levels immediately.

  7. 5. For secondary pneumonia, the CORRECT antibiotic: either Clarithromycin or Azithromycin. Why isn’t the Ministry of Health offering any of this outside the hospital, like normal doctors should? Why did they immediately shut down a Kupat Cholim in Beit Shemesh that tried to provide measles treatment? Why isn’t the Health Ministry even offering much of the necessary treatment IN the hospital, either?

  8. Poor kids, their parents wanted them to get sick. Cost of doing business saving them from the evil shot. Maybe they’ll reconsider when they watch their child suffer for nothing

  9. @RebEmes it looks like you didn’t read what I wrote nor do any talking to the people involved, nor any investigation of the truth at all.
    What exactly makes you believe that the government and media version is the truth? Do you find that they typically like us, seek our benefit, and tell them truth about us? Are you for real?
    And how dare you insinuate that the parents don’t care if their children suffer? Speak for yourself, but these parents stay up through the night, day after day, fighting for their children’s lives and nursing their children back to health.

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