Denver confirms second measles case in quarantined person

Denver has certified a second measles event and the third in Colorado this year but the subject was already in quarantine and unlikely to infect anyone else masses medical bureaucrats explained Wednesday The newly identified circumstance was a person who lived in the same household as a Denver baby diagnosed with measles earlier this month The Denver Department of Community Fitness and Milieu didn t provide any details about the individual other than that they stayed in quarantine during their contagious period which is generally four days before and after the measles rash appears The first Denver person who was too young to receive the vaccine visited Denver Soundness s urgency room on April The robustness department advised unvaccinated people who sought care there at the same time to monitor themselves for clues which can include a fever cough runny nose and red eyes Measles indicators can start up to three weeks after exposure so Denver won t know definitively if anyone else caught the virus from the first victim until the end of the week About of people who don t have immunity to measles will catch it if they are in the same location as a contagious person Related Articles Colorado reports additional measles cases warns virus may be spreading undetected RFK Jr visits epicenter of Texas measles outbreak after death of second child who was infected Editorial Vaccine hesitant Pueblo measles situation is reason to revisit MMR risks Will Colorado s measles matter spark an outbreak Depends on who got exposed First Colorado measles affair since ratified in Pueblo The state also has had two other cases this year an adult person in Pueblo who visited Mexico and an adult in Archuleta County who didn t leave the state No other cases had a link to the Pueblo subject and so far no one appears to have gotten sick from contact with the Archuleta County sufferer One dose of the measles vaccine is about effective in preventing the virus and two doses are effective People who survived measles also generally have lifelong immunity but doctors don t recommend catching it because of the hazard of pneumonia and neurological complications Nationwide people have gotten measles so far this year with about three-quarters of those cases happening in Texas Two children and one adult died of complications from the virus Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get vitality news sent straight to your inbox