CA: 2016/2017 Measles- outbreak in SoCal

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Source: http://www.independent.com/news/2016/dec/30/measles-outbreak-santa-barbara-county/


Measles Breaks Out in SoCal; Santa Barbara Case Confirmed
Disease Confirmed at Goleta Valley Hospital
Friday, December 30, 2016
By Kelsey Brugger (Contact)

In the first time in recent memory, Santa Barbara County Public Health officials announced a confirmed case of measles. On Tuesday at about 7:30 p.m., a Santa Barbara man was admitted to Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. He felt ill soon after returning from Los Angeles...

...Klein-Rothschild declined to reveal specifics about the man?s prior whereabouts or immunization history, but she noted there is currently an outbreak in Los Angeles. Twelve people are believed to have contracted the airborne disease. ?It is highly, highly contagious,? she stressed. Of the 12, just one was fully vaccinated, she added. Protection against measles requires two doses of the MMR vaccine, she said, noting it is 97 percent effective...

 

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Source: http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/lo...measles-case-touches-three-counties/96017050/

Single measles case touches three counties
Tom Kisken
6:04 p.m. PST December 30, 2016

A single measles case has touched Ventura, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties, although officials said Friday that the chances of it spreading in Ventura County are low.

The case involved a Santa Barbara County resident believed to have contracted the disease in Los Angeles County as part of a measles outbreak that has reached 12 cases and was first reported three days before Christmas.

All but the case reported Friday are in Los Angeles County, officials said...

 

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Source: http://www.ksby.com/story/34228689/san-luis-obispo-county-resident-diagnosed-with-measles


San Luis Obispo County resident diagnosed with measles
Posted: Jan 10, 2017 3:54 PM EST
Updated: Jan 10, 2017 3:54 PM EST
By Katherine Worsham

The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department confirmed Tuesday that a county resident has been diagnosed with the measles virus.

Health officials say the adult patient was unvaccinated and began showing symptoms starting January 3 after having contact with international travelers over the holidays. The patient visited the emergency room at Twin Cities Community Hospital in Templeton on January 8 and 9.

Health officials say it is unknown whether this case is connected to a recent outbreak of measles in Los Angeles County that included one case in Santa Barbara County...

 

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Source: http://www.keyt.com/health/ventura-county-confirms-first-case-of-measles/263950831

Ventura County confirms first case of measles
Case marks first of 2017
By: Oscar Flores
Posted: Jan 11, 2017 06:45 PM PST
Updated: Jan 11, 2017 06:46 PM PST

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - It's official. Ventura County Public Health officials confirmed the county's first measles case on Wednesday.

Health officials say both the Ventura resident that contracted measles, and an earlier Santa Barbara County case, have both recovered without needed hospitalization. They say both measles cases have something in common...the patients got the virus from the outbreak in Los Angeles county.

Both cases are unrelated. Officials say the Santa Barbara County patient did not spread measles in Ventura County. Anyone close to the Ventura County patient that could have been exposed to the virus is being quarantined.

14 documented cases of measles related to the L.A. outbreak are now confirmed with the latest being this Ventura County case...

 

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Source: http://www.ksby.com/story/34290493/second-case-of-measles-reported-in-san-luis-obispo-county

Second case of measles reported in San Luis Obispo County
Posted: Jan 18, 2017 3:35 PM EST
Updated: Jan 18, 2017 3:35 PM EST
By Katherine Worsham

The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department on Wednesday reported a second case of measles in the county.

Health officials say the patient, a child under one year of age, had contact with an adult who was diagnosed with measles in early January.

They say the child was too young to be vaccinated. It is recommended that children get vaccinated against the virus at 12 to 15 months of age.

The adult patient was also unvaccinated and began showing symptoms starting January 3 after having contact with international travelers over the holidays...

 

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Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-measles-20170120-story.html


Measles outbreak grows in L.A.'s Orthodox Jewish community despite California's strict new vaccination law
Soumya KarlamanglaContact Reporter

Six months after California?s strict vaccine law took effect, a measles outbreak has infected 20 people, most of them in Los Angeles County, prompting a search for others who may have been exposed to the highly contagious virus.

Most of the patients live in western areas of the county, including L.A.?s Westside, the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Fernando Valley. Santa Barbara and Ventura counties each reported one case.

At least 15 of the 18 L.A. County patients either knew one another or had a clear social connection, said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, interim health officer for the L.A. County Department of Public Health. None of the 18 could provide proof of vaccination, he said.

Gunzenhauser said the first person was diagnosed in early December, followed by 16 cases in the last three weeks of 2016, and then one more case last week.

?I?m hopeful that we?re getting to the end of this,? he said.

Hershy Z. Ten, a rabbi who runs Jewish healthcare foundation Bikur Cholim in L.A.?s Beverly Grove neighborhood, said county health officials told him a measles outbreak was affecting the county?s Orthodox Jewish community. He convened a panel last week to discuss steps that Jewish day schools and synagogues could take to stem the outbreak and ensure unvaccinated children are immunized...

 

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Source: http://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2017/01/26/four-measles-cases-reported-county/97097372/

Four measles cases reported in county
Tom Kisken
1:40 p.m. PT Jan. 26, 2017

Four cases of measles, all in the same Ventura County household, have emerged in the past week, bringing the county's tally for the contagious disease to five people, public health officials said Thursday.

Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County public health officer, said he's confident public health has identified the people exposed to the highly contagious disease, limiting the risk of the disease spreading more...

 

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Source: https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2017/03/15/measles-case-stirs-county-alerts-for-vista-encinitas/

Measles Case Stirs County Alerts for Vista, Encinitas
Posted by Ken Stone on March 15, 2017

A case of measles has been confirmed in a San Diego County resident who traveled out of the country and may have exposed others at two North County medical facilities, the Health and Human Services Agency announced Wednesday.

One of those locations is the Scripps Coastal Medical Center Urgent Care in the 100 block of Cedar Road in Vista, where exposures may have occurred on March 8 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight and March 9 from 4 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

The other potential exposures occurred at the Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas emergency room and radiology department in the 300 block of Santa Fe Drive between March 9 at 6 p.m. and March 10 at 8 a.m., and the second floor in-patient hospital ward on March 10 from 5:30 a.m. to 8:15 p.m., according to the HHSA...

 

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Source: http://mynewsla.com/orange-county/2017/04/06/two-cases-of-measles-first-of-the-year-reported-in-oc/

Two cases of measles ? first of the year ? reported in OC
Posted by Debbie L. Sklar on April 6, 2017 in OC

Health officials Thursday confirmed the first two cases of the measles so far this year in Orange County.

The first case involved an adult who was exposed to the disease while on an international flight. He had been vaccinated, according to Jessica Good of the Orange County Health Care Agency.

The second case was confirmed on Monday. A Laguna Beach High School student, who had not been vaccinated, did not report any traveling outside Orange County and has had no known exposures to anyone with measles, Good said.

It has not been determined how the student got sick, she said, noting that parents of students at the school were notified of the measles case in a letter issued Wednesday.

A ?small number? of students who have not gotten measles shots were told to stay home until April 18, she said...