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Speaker 2: It's Richard Arnold. Good morning to your Richards Andrew, good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our King's birthday. You don't celebrate that over there.
Speaker 2: I see that America is having problems with measles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, for years has been not much talk
Speaker 3: about measles. A vaccine for the disease was developed back
Speaker 3: in sixty three. At its widespread use worldwide brought the
Speaker 3: number of cases down to just a trickle. Now, though,
Speaker 3: cases are surging again here in what largely is seen
Speaker 3: as the impact of the anti vax movement and the
Speaker 3: US government's Centers for Disease Control. The CDC has just
Speaker 3: issued a travel warning. They say if people are traveling internationally,
Speaker 3: they should make sure they are vaccinated or consider postponing
Speaker 3: the trip. Back in the early nineteen sixties in this country,
Speaker 3: there were up to two million measles cases a year
Speaker 3: and some four hundred deaths annually among those infected. Then
Speaker 3: the numbers were reduced to only a handful. So that's
Speaker 3: what we've known most of our lives. But this year
Speaker 3: there has been a series of alerts in Texas and
Speaker 3: Iowa and Nebraska and elsewhere. Several other states included, and
Speaker 3: these are areas where immunization rates have falled, there among
Speaker 3: the lowest in the country. This year, the number of
Speaker 3: cases has hit one thousand and eighty eight on the
Speaker 3: present count, and there have been three deaths, so that's
Speaker 3: the first time in decades that numbers have reached anything
Speaker 3: like this. Measles also is emerging again as a probably
Speaker 3: be in some other countries. One of the latest cases
Speaker 3: here saw of three individuals, including a child under the
Speaker 3: age of five, getting measles after being exposed on a
Speaker 3: Turkish Airlines flight to Denver in Colorado. Doctor minish but
Speaker 3: Tell of the CDC says measles can be deadly. Measle
Speaker 3: can be severe no matter what your age.
Speaker 1: You can have an infection of the lungs, swelling of
Speaker 1: the brain known as encephalitis, and unfortunately death well.
Speaker 3: Measles also is very contagious. That virus can linger in
Speaker 3: the air for as long as two hours, so that
Speaker 3: makes it big problem in confined spaces as you can
Speaker 3: imagine as well. It can be in your system for
Speaker 3: up to twenty one days before you experienced symptoms. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it is a big problem. Even before this traveler that
Speaker 3: the measles vaccine was very much in the news here
Speaker 3: because of the theories promoted by the current Trump Health
Speaker 3: Secretary Roc Junior. He is the one who has said
Speaker 3: that maybe it would be best if everyone had the measles,
Speaker 3: because if you get it, you're immune for the rest
Speaker 3: of your life, provided you survive. Right these days in government,
Speaker 3: RFK has changed his tune just a little bit, admitting
Speaker 3: now that he had his own children vaccinated even as
Speaker 3: he was speaking out against that vaccine.
Speaker 2: Yes, we just recently had an outbreak here in New
Speaker 2: Zealand and it happened on a ferry and we had
Speaker 2: all sorts of alerts of very serious disease. Last time
Speaker 2: we had an outbreak in Auckland, it caused two deaths
Speaker 2: in New Zealand, and of course recently in some More
Speaker 2: we had a measle's outbreak. Eighty three people died over there,
Speaker 2: and it's preventable by a vaccination.
Speaker 3: And that was a situation where Robert Kennedy Jr. Was
Speaker 3: involved as well. He went over there and he gave
Speaker 3: some advice and then we saw the tragic results of
Speaker 3: people not being vaccinated, and Kennedy has tried to distance
Speaker 3: himself from the advice he gave at that particular time.
Speaker 2: All I just have something a little bit more positive
Speaker 2: this King's birthday. You have a tail of a remarkable rescue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is amazing. Kel Morris, who was sixty one,
Speaker 3: was out hiking in Alaska with his wife. It was
Speaker 3: a philly, remote area. The rock slide began on the
Speaker 3: trail and Kell lost his footing wound up tumbling in
Speaker 3: the midst of all that debris, and finally he was
Speaker 3: pinned under a giant boulder. It was on his leg,
Speaker 3: his left leg. His bones weren't broken, but he was
Speaker 3: half submerged in glacier waters as well. He says the
Speaker 3: rock had him really caught, was pressed and pinching up
Speaker 3: against the bone. Well, Fortunately, he says Kel, of the circumstance,
Speaker 3: there was enough flat rock underneath the leg to keep
Speaker 3: it from breaking it. But at the time I thought
Speaker 3: for sure any second was gonna break. However, he looked
Speaker 3: like he was going to be stuck there for good,
Speaker 3: and he was partly underwater. His wife Joanna, did as
Speaker 3: much as she could to sort of prop his head
Speaker 3: up support him. Then she took off, trying to get
Speaker 3: a signal on her phone, which she soon did, but
Speaker 3: they were a long way out and emergency crews would
Speaker 3: have taken about an hour to arrive if they hurried.
Speaker 3: That's when a local helicopter pilot heard the radio call
Speaker 3: and volunteered to fly in a rescue team. The rescuers
Speaker 3: were dropped to the ground as the chopper was hopping overhead,
Speaker 3: so it was quite a situation. They found that Kell
Speaker 3: was in a bad, bad state. Found on mister Morris,
Speaker 3: face down in the creek just above freezing waters. He
Speaker 3: was hypothermic, He was in and out of consciousness, not good.
Speaker 3: They used air bags, ropes, and brute force to get
Speaker 3: him out and take him off to the hospital where
Speaker 3: get this, he had only a few scratches and some
Speaker 3: minor nerve damage. Kel saying he was hugely grateful to
Speaker 3: all who intervened and saved him, but he says none
Speaker 3: of this will stop hi venturing in the future back
Speaker 3: into the great outdoors.
Speaker 2: Good, ma'am, and I thank you so much. Richard Arnold
Speaker 2: from the United States of America.
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