The Kane County Health Department is tracking the outbreak of measles and is concerned about the high number of cases that have been reported in the Chicago area within the last two months, health …
Kane County Health Department officials said no cases of measles have been reported in the county, though officials are monitoring the situation due to the outbreak in the Chicago area. Although DuPage County recently reported its first measles case since 2009 amid an outbreak in Chicago, Kane County is currently free of the infectious disease, health officials said.
He said that, in the state of Illinois, more cases of measles have been reported in 2024 than were reported in the previous nine years combined. The best way to protect against measles is vaccination, according to Isaacson. He said the Kane County Health Department is also concerned about this outbreak of measles because some parents are not keeping their children on schedule for vaccinations.
“The more people here we have that are susceptible, the more likely that is that we’re going to have a spread of cases,” Isaacson said.The first is the speed and ease at which the disease can travel from person to person. He said measles can even linger in the air or on surfaces, infecting people for hours after the sick person leaves the area.
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