Officials with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported last week of a confirmed measles case that is linked to the University of Illinois.
According to health officials, the following locations is the list of possible exposures to this case:
The McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois is working with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
The MMR is a routine immunization in many countries and is a requirement at the University of Illinois.
Local media reports three or four additional people are being tested for measles.
Measles is VERY contagious. Measles spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It is so contagious that if one person has it, 9 out of 10 people around him or her will also become infected if they are not protected.
Most individuals have been vaccinated routinely in childhood (MMR, Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine) and are not at high risk. Most people born before 1957 have had measles, and have immunity.
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