Taiwan: 2016 Measles

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Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/03/25/2003642407


Fri, Mar 25, 2016
First case of measles this year announced by Taipei

WATCH LIST:From a total of 231 people the woman came into contact with while she was infectious, 85 have been declared symptom-free, officials said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

The Taipei City Department of Health yesterday announced that a woman in her 40s has contracted measles ? the first case this year ? adding that so far, 85 people who had contact with the patient showed no signs of being infected.

Division for Disease and Control and Prevention Director Chen Shao-ching (陳少卿) said the woman visited China from March 2 to March 5, with symptoms of fever and weakness beginning on March 12, followed by rashes starting on Wednesday last week.

She said the communicable period of the disease was between March 12 and Sunday last week, and the woman visited three clinics and one hospital during this period...

 

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Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2016/08/04/474395/2-measles.htm

2 measles cases seen as cluster infection
CNA
August 4, 2016, 12:06 am TWN

TAIPEI -- Two cases of measles infection have been confirmed to have originated from a domestic departure area at Taipei Songshan Airport, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) urged the public Wednesday to be on alert if they have traveled to places where either of the two patients have visited between July 26 and Aug. 1.

A 42-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were confirmed to have contracted measles Aug. 1, and their specimen tests suggest that the cases are a cluster infection, the CDC said.

The man departed for Kinmen July 15, returning to Taipei the following day, but developed fever, coughing and measles from July 24-31, when he sought medical attention. The woman, an airline ground staffer, worked at the same place where the man was infected July 15 and sought medication July 30-31 for the same symptoms.

Yen Che-chieh, director of the CDC's northern district control center, said that as both patients had been in the same area of the airport between 1 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. July 15, they might have been infected by another source as yet unidentified...