August 13, 2019
An Israeli flight attendant (click here) who was hospitalized in April after catching measles on a plane has died, becoming the third fatality in an outbreak of the highly contagious disease, Hebrew-language media reported Tuesday.
The El Al flight attendant, 43, had contracted measles on a flight from New York in late March.
Her condition deteriorated later that month and she was moved to an isolated intensive care unit, after slipping into a coma and suffering brain damage.
She was diagnosed with meningoencephalitis — a complication of the measles virus that is similar to having both meningitis and encephalitis, respectively infections or inflammations of the lining of the brain and the brain itself....
