An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials
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The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus. She was otherwise healthy before getting measles. "She's been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we're now just hoping for the best," said Dr. Itamar Grotto, associate director general of Israel's Ministry of Health.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews tend to have large families, and Grotto said those who don't vaccinate tend to have practical, not ideological, reasons. "Sometimes, they vaccinate their first or second child, but with so many children, they don't always have time to vaccinate them all," he said."They're not against vaccines. They have nothing against them ideologically.
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