Hawaii confirms travel-related measles case in child under 5

[mahina]

Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed its first measles case this year in an unvaccinated child on Oahu under the age of 5.

Gov. Josh Green made the announcement during a press conference this morning, in which he urged everyone to get vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella.

The case was confirmed Monday night, Green said, in a child that recently returned from international travel. The child developed a fever, runny nose and cough shortly after returning to Hawaii, and sought medical care at Queen's Island Urgent Care Kapahulu after breaking out in a rash.

DOH said the child is now recovering at home on Oahu, and a household member with similar symptoms is being evaluated for possible measles infection. "I don't want anyone to panic," said Green. "There is no reason to panic, and our Department of Health is on it. We've been talking through the morning and night about what we do."

Read more: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/04/08/breaking-news/hawaii-confirms-travel-related-measles-case-in-child-under-5/

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More at the link. Our governor is a doc. He looks absolutely exhausted.

The Hawaiian community and very local community on the Leeward side is at risk because of their vaccine aversion (not all, but too many.) This case is on the Windward side. There is a constant drumbeat of "government bad , modern healthcare bad, science bad" here that has been cultivated by many sources, including a group of Russian young men that work at a moving company. They come right out of the Russian army and move to Waiʻanae. Personally know this for a fact, have met them twice. Who is them who told me that one of their group just got off the airplane yesterday from Russia, just got out of the Russian army.

Anyway, prayers, deep breaths, meditations, any kind of love to that little kid and everybody around him or her and everybody around them, etc. Get your MMR shots people.

[MrsCheaplaugh]

1. "group of Russian young men..."

Putin's agents, all of them.

[mahina]

2. 100%

[IronLionZion]

3. Vulnerable immune compromised people might want to start masking again

you never know for sure how well your own childhood vaccination will hold up around infected unvaccinated people. They tend to have high viral loads.

[Grins]

4. Of all states - Hawaii.

Find it if you haven’t read it; the book ”Hawaii” by James Michener.

It was a best seller when it came out - 66–years ago. Even made a movie about it.

There is a section of the book that deals with white “missionaries” who introduced measles to Hawaiians - who had never encountered it and had no natural defense.

So it spread RAPIDLY!
So THOUSANDS died. Horribly.

[mahina]

5. A lot of it was baloney but it was inspired by history, & he did make $$$. There were several plagues brought by ship

First was syphillis

Hawaii's people were decimated by many plagues. It was not thousands; they reduced the Hawaiian people by 90%.
https://www.oha.org/wp-content/uploads/History-of-Epidemics-in-Hawaii-Information-Sheet-LCH-2021.pdf

OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS RESEARCH DIVISION
A Brief Overview of Epidemics in Hawaiʻi

Introduction
As Hawaiʻi experiences the effects of COVID-19, this trying time re-
minds us to reflect upon our history for guidance on moving for-
ward. Native Hawaiians have been experiencing the effects of
foreign illnesses for over 200 years. Beginning with Captain Cook’s
arrival, increased contact with the rest of the world enabled the
spread of illnesses to Hawaiʻi that would have catastrophic effects on
the Native Hawaiian population throughout the islands.

As a people, Native Hawaiians come from a long history of being
healthy. With the main occupations of farming and fishing, Native
Hawaiians enjoyed a physically rigorous lifestyle. Kahuna La ʻau
Lapaʻau (healing experts) applied pule (prayer) and la ʻau (medicine)
to known maʻi (illnesses) that were present in Hawaiʻi before the
arrival of foreigners. Foreign illnesses that caused epidemics came to
be known as maʻi ahulau, because of the numerous bodies that were
“ahu” or “heaped up” due to the number of deaths (Pukui & Elbert,
1986). The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that “A disease can
be declared an epidemic when it spreads over a wide area and many
individuals are taken ill at the same time” and may become a pan-
demic if the area and population affected become greater.

This is not meant to be an exhaustive account of all the illnesses that
plagued Native Hawaiians, but is instead an overview of the major
epidemics, the effects they had and the response and resilience of
Native Hawaiians through those times. A timeline by Papa Ola
Lo kahi entitled, “Hawaiian Health Timeline and Events,” was
referenced in order to identify the major historical epidemics that
are expanded upon in this paper

(Papa Ola Lokahi, 2016).
Kalawao Leper Settlement (Source: Hawaiʻi State Archives )
Research Division
Land, Culture, and History Section
Information Sheet, June 2020
Office of Hawaiian Affairs 560 N. Nimitz Hwy, Suite 200, Honolulu, HI 96817 www.oha.org

More at the link.