CA: 2018 Measles- Case on measles in visitor to Santa Monica

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Source: https://www.sfcdcp.org/wp-content/u...easles-in-Bay-Area-SFDPH-FINAL-04.05.2018.pdf

HEALTH ADVISORY
Measles in San Francisco Bay Area
April 5, 2018
Between 3/5/18 and 4/3/18, measles has been confirmed in six (6) unvaccinated patients who are residents of Santa Clara County (5) and Alameda County (1). One
additional linked case has been confirmed in Nevada. All cases are linked to an
unvaccinated traveler who was exposed in Europe and developed measles after returning to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Local health departments in the Bay Area are conducting contact investigations...
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Source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...urist-Who-Visited-Santa-Monica-491175501.html

Measles Case Confirmed in Tourist Who Visited Santa Monica
By City News Service
Published at 6:33 AM PDT on Aug 18, 2018

Amid reports of measles cases in several states, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Friday announced that one case has been confirmed in a non resident tourist who visited Santa Monica while infectious earlier this month.

Amid reports of measles cases in several states, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Friday announced that one case has been confirmed in a non resident tourist who visited Santa Monica while infectious earlier this month.

According to county health officials, the patient visited the Sea Blue Hotel, 1670 Ocean Ave., from 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 until 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 10.

On Aug. 8, the individual visited Urth Caffe, 2327 Main St., from 4-6 p.m. and Chez Jay restaurant, 1657 Ocean Ave., from 8-11 p.m.

On Aug. 9, the person visited Cora's Coffee Shoppe, 1802 Ocean Ave., from 9 a.m. to noon and on Aug. 10 the restaurant at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, 1700 Ocean Ave., from 9 a.m. to noon...

 

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Source: https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/health-fitness/article216933070.html

California measles cases already top last year?s total; what health providers can do
By Cathie Anderson
August 19, 2018 10:00 AM
Updated August 19, 2018 10:59 AM

With a little more than four months to go in 2018, California residents already have contracted more cases of the measles this year than they did in all of 2017, according to the California Department of Public Health.

There have been 18 cases in California as of Aug. 10, one of them a child in Sacramento County whom officials say came down with the illness after visiting a foreign country. Last year, there were 15 cases statewide, none of them in the four-county capital region...