Wisconsin: 2014 Measles cases/alerts- case reported in Grant County

[Shiloh]

Source: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_09aca4eb-4d0d-5d72-9f83-d01d76507681.html


UW Hospital patient may have exposed others to measles
? DAVID WAHLBERG | Wisconsin State Journal | dwahlberg@madison.com |

A patient at UW Hospital Saturday through Monday may have exposed hundreds of patients and visitors to measles, hospital officials announced Thursday...

...The hospital is contacting patients who were in the hospital Saturday through Monday. Patients and visitors who were in the ER from 3 p.m. to midnight Saturday who have not been immunized against measles or are unsure are encouraged to contact Public Health Madison and Dane County, at (608) 243-0456...

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Wisconsin: 2014 Measles cases/alerts- case reported in Grant County

Source: http://www.swnews4u.com/section/170/article/19556/


Measles reported in Grant County
Person caught illness out of state
POSTED February 10, 2014 3:52 p.m.


Monday afternoon, the Grant County Health Department received a report of a confirmed measles case in an adult in the eastern side of the county.

According to County Health Director Jeff Kindrai, it has not been determined just where the individual contracted the illness, although an initial review may have placed the origin outside the county, and possibly outside of the state.

Kindrai would not say which community the patient who had the measles, due to privacy concerns, but said that person had limited exposure to people when he may have been infectious, and the health department had contacted those individuals that may have been exposed...