On Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced four additional Mesa County measles cases, including three who traveled and one person they infected directly.
A member of the medical staff administers a dose of the measles vaccine to a child at a health center in Lubbock, Texas, on Feb. 27, 2025. Mesa County’s late-summer measles outbreak started with three children who brought the virus back from an out-of-state trip, ultimately passing it on to eight other people.
On Wednesday, the agency announced four additional cases from August, including the three who traveled and one person they infected directly. Those four previously unidentified people then spread the virus to the seven known cases. All four of the new cases were unvaccinated children between five and 17, according to the health department. It didn’t release any other information, such as which state the children traveled to or whether any of them were related.The newly identified people got sick in August, meaning they’re well past the contagious period. Most people who have measles are contagious for about four days before the rash appears and four days after. The vaccine schedule calls for kids to receive their first dose at about 1 and their second around 5. Some children with compromised immune systems can’t receive the vaccine and rely on the rest of the community to protect them through herd immunity, where so many people have been vaccinated that the virus can’t easily reach new hosts.who got sick in mid-August, three people who shared a household with one of them and two strangers who crossed paths with them andNew measles case confirmed in Mesa County; more may have been exposedreported 1,596 cases as of Tuesday, including 197 hospitalizations and three deaths. The last time the country had more cases was 1992. While a massive outbreak in Texas has ended, new ones have started in South Carolina, Utah, Arizona and Minnesota. More than 100 children in South Carolina are missing school because they have toOil exec sells Avon ski-in mansion for $25M to 84 Lumber ownerJerry Schemmel, longtime Rockies radio voice, laid off by iHeartRadioDavid Adelman on Nuggets’ debut of Nikola Jokic-Jonas Valanciunas lineup: ‘It was hilarious to watch it on tape’ David Adelman on Nuggets' debut of Nikola Jokic-Jonas Valanciunas lineup: 'It was hilarious to watch it on tape''It's raging:' Southern Colorado floods that shut schools, roads unusual for fall
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