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| A photo of Jessica Rempel and her three sons taken on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. |
An Alberta parent says she is relieved for a return to normalcy after her three sons spent about two weeks in quarantine after potentially being exposed to measles at the Edmonton International Airport.
“It was horrible,” Jessica Rempel told Global News on Wednesday, as she described her sons’ ordeal. “You’re always looking at them — looking for a new rash, looking for a fever, looking to see if they have any coughs or sneezes.”
The concern was heightened because Jessica’s children — five-year-old Wyatt, three-year-old Grayson and two-year-old Elliot — all have prine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) deficiency, a disorder that damages the immune system and causes severe combined immunodeficiency.
The boys were all vaccinated as infants, before they were diagnosed with PNP. However, they’ve since had bone marrow transplants and have to be re-vaccinated post-transplant. But because the measles vaccine is a live vaccine, they’re required to wait.
The family’s troubles began last month when they returned home to Millet, Alta., from a trip, made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Give Kids the World Village, to the Walt Disney World resort in Florida.
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