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Delaware County steps up vaccination outreach as measles and pertussis cases rise
Summary
Health department staff briefed the Board of Health on a recent measles exposure, a statewide rise in measles cases, a local pertussis surge, and expanded school and clinic vaccination efforts to raise immunization rates.
Delaware County public-health staff told the Board of Health that they are intensifying vaccination outreach after recent measles and pertussis activity and are expanding school and community clinics to close immunization gaps.
Carol Brown Collin, nurse manager for the department's disease investigation team, described a December 2023/January 2024 measles case in an infant who had traveled overseas. The child later sought care at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the county counted about "36 exposures that needed to be followed for weeks after the exposure," Collin said. She described the department's contact-tracing process and criteria for high-risk contacts (unvaccinated people, infants, pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals).
Collin emphasized that measles remains serious: the county cited state data showing about 17% of recent measles cases required…
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