The Health Ministry warns the public of possible exposure to measles patients on a flight from Turkey to Israel and on two buses last week, calling on unvaccinated passengers to get immunized.
In a statement, the ministry says a measles patient was traveling on Turkish Airlines flight number TK0786 that departed Istanbul at 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11, and landed at Ben Gurion Airport at 2:40 p.m.
Additionally, a measles patient traveled last Thursday, December 13, on a 319 bus from Rehovot to Bnei Brak that departed at 7 p.m., and on a 979 bus from Bnei Brak to Safed that departed at 9 p.m.
In both cases, the ministry calls on passengers of the plane or bus rides who were born after 1957 and haven’t received two doses of the anti-measles vaccine to consult with their health clinics on whether they should get vaccinated.
It recommends that they get immunized by tomorrow morning.
Israel is going through a measles outbreak that has seen hundreds hospitalized and a baby die.
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