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CDC traces 2009 measles outbreak to Pa.
Published: Jan. 20, 2012 at 8:07 PM
ATLANTA, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. health officials say they traced the path of a 2009 measles outbreak to a Pennsylvania hospital.
"The outbreak started when a child from India with fever and rash went to a hospital emergency department on March 10, 2009, and was diagnosed with viral exanthema -- a rash due to a viral infection such as measles but may also be non-specific for several viral illnesses -- but not tested for measles," said a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "On April 3, after an extensive public health investigation, the child was belatedly diagnosed with measles..."
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: January 20, 2012
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A measles outbreak in a Pennsylvania hospital underlines the need for staff members to be immunized against the virus, the CDC said.
And clinicians also need to include measles in the differential diagnosis of patients with a fever and a rash -- especially if they have a recent history of international travel, the agency said in the Jan. 2 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
