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Public health officials brief Davis County advisory board on measles, senior communicable-disease risks
Summary
A Davis County epidemiologist updated the senior advisory board on the national measles outbreak and on communicable-disease threats affecting older adults, emphasizing vaccination, infection control in congregate settings and school readiness for the coming term.
Matt McCord, an epidemiologist with the Division of Communicable Disease and Epidemiology, told the Davis County Senior Services Advisory Board that measles is highly contagious, the county has had no confirmed cases and public health is focused on prevention and school-year readiness.
"Measles is one of the most highly contagious diseases that we know of," McCord said, outlining incubation, symptom, and infectious-period timing and noting the disease’s prodrome of cough, coryza and conjunctivitis. He said nationally 92% of identified measles cases have been among unvaccinated people, about 13% of reported cases have required hospitalization and three deaths had been reported in the current outbreak.
McCord said Davis County has had to "rule out a lot of suspected cases" this year through testing…
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