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East Oregonian
Friday, January 23, 2015
Measles outbreak casts spotlight
on anti-vaccine movement
By ALICIA CHANG
AP Science Writer
Idaho has 22 breeding
wolf pairs, estimated
1,000 wolves
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
making a resurgence,” said
Deanne Thompson, a spokes-
woman for the Orange County
Health Care Agency. “When our
immunity falls, it creates a prob-
lem for the whole community.”
While all states require cer-
tain vaccinations for schoolchil-
dren, parents in certain states
such as California can opt out if
they sign a personal belief waiv-
er.
LOS ANGELES — A major
measles outbreak traced to Dis-
neyland has brought criticism
down on the small but vocal
movement among parents to
opt out of vaccinations for their
children.
In a rash of cases that pub-
to contain, at least 70 people
in six states and Mexico have
fallen ill since mid-December,
most of them from California.
The vast majority of those who
got sick had not gotten the mea-
sles-mumps-rubella, or MMR,
vaccine.
While still a scourge in many
corners of the world, measles
has been all but eradicated in
the U.S. since 2000 because
of vaccinations. But the virus
has made a comeback in recent
years, in part because of peo-
ple obtaining personal belief
exemptions from rules that say
children must get their shots to
enroll in school.
Others have delayed getting
their children vaccinated be-
cause they still believe now-dis-
credited research linking the
measles vaccine to autism.
“Some people are just in-
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
world after all,” the Los Ange-
les Times said in an editorial last
week.
Barbara Loe Fisher, director
of the National Vaccine Infor-
mation Center, a Virginia-based
shots, said Dr. James Cherry, a
pediatric disease expert at the
University of California, Los
Angeles.
As cases mount, several
newspapers have criticized the
parents decide whether to vac-
wise or responsible to blame”
unvaccinated people for the
Disney outbreak. She noted that
a small number of those stricken
had been fully vaccinated.
Health authorities believe
the outbreak was triggered by
a measles-stricken visitor to
one of the Disney parks who
brought the virus from abroad
last month.
-
gest tourist destinations, Disney
was a perfect spot for the virus
to spread, with large numbers
of babies too young to be vac-
cinated and lots of visitors from
countries that do not require
measles shots. The disease has
since spread beyond Disney-
land.
The infected ranged from 7
months to 70 years old, includ-
BRIEFLY
GOP pushes broad
abortion curbs
through the House
who buy abortion coverage un-
health care overhaul.
A White House veto threat
and an uncertain fate in the
Senate mean the legislation has
no realistic chance of becoming
law. But on a day when crowds
of anti-abortion demonstrators
stretched for blocks outside
Capitol windows — and hours
after the embarrassing GOP
stumble on another abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) —
With thousands of abortion
protesters swarming the city
in their annual March for
Life, Republicans muscled
broadened abortion restrictions
through the House on Thursday
after a GOP rebellion forced
leaders into an awkward retreat
on an earlier version.
By a near party-line 242-179
vote, the House voted to perma-
nently forbid federal funds for
most abortion coverage. The
bill would also block tax credits
for many people and employers
let party leaders signal that the
Congress they now command is
at least trying to end abortion.
bill and the abrupt derailment
of another forbidding most late-
term abortions underscored the
Japan faces deadline
to free 2 captives of
Islamic State
TOKYO (AP) — The
deadline for paying ransom for
two Japanese hostages held by
the Islamic State group was fast
approaching early Friday with
no signs of a breakthrough.
Lacking clout and diplo-
matic reach in the Middle East,
Japan has been scrambling for a
way to secure the release of the
April. But Hayden said that through mid-Janu-
ary it appears the wolf population has declined
slightly from the estimate of 1,036 wolves as of
Jan. 1, 2014.
Hayden noted that the report prepared for
the Idaho Fish and Game Commission meeting
on Thursday included an estimated range of 15-
25 breeding pairs in Idaho. Hayden said those
numbers were meant to show that the state is
safely above the 15 minimum.
-
-
drea Santarsiere, an attorney for the Center for
Biological Diversity.
to manage wolf populations, Idaho has already
proven its true goal is to wipe out most of the
report should be a wake-up call to Fish and
Wildlife Service.”
The state agency spends much of its energy
documenting breeding wolf pairs. Hayden said
there are likely more than 22 breeding wolf
pairs in the state as biologists this winter have
gathered information on only 30 of the 107
known wolf packs in Idaho.
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Endangered Species Act.
The estimate of 1,000 wolves is based on a
sampling of wolf packs to determine pack size,
Hayden said, and then determining the number
of wolves associated with packs. He said about
10 to 15 percent of wolves are lone wolves not
associated with a pack, so that is added.
The number of wolves in Idaho increased
steadily since their reintroduction in 1995 and
peaked in 2009 just before hunting and trapping
began. It has declined each year since.
time, that deadline would ex-
pire sometime Friday.
Government spokesman
Yoshihide Suga said Thurs-
day that Japan was trying all
possible channels to reach those
holding the hostages.
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Idaho Fish and Game biologist Jim Hayden
said there are an estimated 1,000 wolves in the
state, and probably many more breeding pairs
of wolves than counted.
“The 22 is still tentative but it can only go
up from there,” he said before giving a presen-
tation to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission
in Boise.
Hayden said the number of breeding pairs
in the state is not at risk of falling below 15,
which would lead to the state having to return
wolf management to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
two men, one a journalist, the
other an adventurer fascinated
by war. Two Japanese who
said they have contacts with
a leader in the Islamic State
group offered Thursday to try
to negotiate, but it was unclear
if the Japanese government was
receptive to the idea.
The militants threatened
in a video message to kill the
hostages within 72 hours unless
they receive $200 million.
of backing abortion restrictions
crucial to conservatives while
not alienating women and
younger voters wary of such
restrictions.
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— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
have to return management to the federal gov-
percentage of kindergartners in
California who are up to date on
all vaccinations has held pretty
steady from 90.7 percent in the
2010-11 school year to 90.4 per-
cent in 2014-15. But there are
some wealthy communities in
Los Angeles and Orange coun-
ties and in Northern California
with double-digit vaccination
exemption rates.
To control this latest out-
break, those who are not vacci-
nated were warned this week to
stay away from Disney theme
parks. Disney employees who
have no proof of immunization
and may have come into con-
tact with sick colleagues were
placed on paid leave until they
are given the medical all-clear.
-
one has made a choice that not
only affects their child but other
-
fer Simon, whose 6-month-old
daughter, Livia, was isolated af-
ter it was learned she may have
been exposed to measles during
A woman with a Mickey Mouse hat walks toward Sleeping
Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland Thursday in Anaheim, Calif.
California public health officials urged those who haven’t
been vaccinated against measles to avoid Disney parks
where a spreading outbreak originated.
anti-vaccine movement.
Measles “is a disease that has
been beaten by modern medi-
cine. That makes it all the more
frustrating that anti-science
stubbornness has proven, in the
case of the Disneyland-related
measles, that when it comes to
BOISE, Idaho — The number of wolves in
Idaho has shown a steady decline since the ap-
proval of hunting and trapping of the animals in
the state, but a new study showing there are 22
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Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy
Intervals of clouds
and sun
Fog in the a.m.;
rather cloudy
43° 41°
55° 43°
55° 41°
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
33°
27°
42°
28°
67° (1897) -26° (1930)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
0.70"
1.07"
0.70"
0.38"
1.07"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
36°
31°
43°
29°
64° (1968) -33° (1930)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Trace
0.43"
0.92"
0.43"
0.27"
0.92"
SUN AND MOON
Jan 26
Feb 3
Mild with clouds
and sun
57° 36°
52° 39°
Last
Feb 11
58° 37°
52° 37°
52° 40°
51° 38°
Seattle
54/52
PENDLETON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Sunny to partly
cloudy and mild
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
TUESDAY
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
MONDAY
7:27 a.m.
4:48 p.m.
9:08 a.m.
9:19 p.m.
New
Feb 18
Spokane
Wenatchee
37/35
37/34
Tacoma
Moses
53/50
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 41/35
42/39
54/52
52/51
43/35
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/50
45/42 Lewiston
45/39
Astoria
48/41
55/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
52/45
Pendleton 43/31
The Dalles 44/41
43/41
47/40
La Grande
Salem
44/34
55/46
Albany
Corvallis 56/44
56/44
John Day
46/32
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
35/28
55/42
52/36
Caldwell
Burns
35/25
44/26
Medford
56/38
REGIONAL CITIES
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy most
of the time today.
Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today
and tonight; periods of rain, except a shower
across the south.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a passing shower in the north and toward
the Cascades.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today and tonight;
a couple of showers across the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow.
Lo
51
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36
46
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Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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37
57
61
46
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57
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48
57
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48
59
58
62
37
54
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45
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49
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Hi
48
68
66
43
73
25
36
57
39
86
52
Lo
22
60
49
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28
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72
38
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36
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30
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86
48
Sat.
Lo
21
62
47
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WINDS
Boardman
Pendleton
Today
Saturday
NE 2-4
SSW 3-6
SW 6-12
SW 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
little rain across the north.
Hi
55
36
52
60
44
43
55
49
44
46
52
44
44
56
58
62
35
45
43
52
53
55
37
49
52
45
43
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
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52/29
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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showers t-storms
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warm front stationary front
110s
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National Summary: Rain will drench much of the Southeastern states with spotty storms in
northern Florida. Snow showers will dot the Upper Great Lakes with some rain in store for
western Washington state and coastal Oregon.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 84° in Fort Myers, Fla.
Low -17° in Pinedale, Wyo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
43
47
42
40
47
51
35
37
60
45
38
35
52
45
35
45
-5
41
82
49
40
71
50
62
47
77
Lo
20
39
31
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35
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32
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25
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26
68
35
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61
30
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Hi
46
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41
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49
39
35
56
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39
36
58
52
37
52
-11
37
79
59
43
62
56
67
58
81
Sat.
Lo
24
35
33
27
41
32
29
27
36
34
32
28
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32
28
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33
66
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
45
44
80
38
38
42
52
39
50
48
41
67
33
37
43
48
53
59
46
38
73
64
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Lo
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70
32
30
32
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Hi
49
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79
40
38
49
56
37
60
55
39
76
36
35
47
52
59
55
52
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76
64
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70
43
61
Sat.
Lo
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37
52
32
31
34
39
31
37
39
29
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25
32
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30
42
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53
47
48
44
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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