The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and the Kansas City Missouri Health Department have been notified of a confirmed case of measles. At this time, the investigation does not connect the individual to the Kansas outbreak of measles. The Department is waiting for the completion of tests to determine the strain of disease from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, the Kansas City Health Department can now confirm the previously reported Kansas City case was not related to current Kansas outbreak of measles.
DHSS is working with the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department to notify individuals who may have been exposed to measles in the Kansas City, Missouri area related to this most recent confirmed case. Known locations where exposures may have occurred include the following:
| Date | Location Name | Exposure Timeframe | Location Address |
| March 30, 2018 | Barnes & Noble | 8:00 AM-10:30 AM | Oak Park Mall
11323 W 95th St Overland Park, KS |
| March 30, 2018 | Subway | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM | 312 E 51st St
Kansas City, MO |
| March 30, 2018 | Cosentino’s Price Chopper | 12:30 PM-5:00 PM | 6327 Brookside Plaza
Kansas City, MO |
| March 31, 2018 | Laundroplex | 5:00 PM-10:00 PM | 575 NW 68th St
Kansas City, MO |
| March 31, 2018 | Quick Trip | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM | 601 NW 68th St
Kansas City, MO |
| April 1, 2018 | Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (church and lobby) | 10:30 PM-2:30 PM | 1600 MO-291
Liberty, MO |
Measles is a highly contagious, acute viral illness that is transmitted by contact with an infected person through coughing and sneezing. Patients are considered to be contagious from four days before until four days after the rash appears. The measles virus can remain infectious in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves an area. Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease. You can check with your health care provider to make sure you and your family are up-to-date on vaccines.
The symptoms of measles generally include a rash that appears 7-21 days after exposure. Measles typically begins with:
- A high fever
- Cough
- Runny nose
- Red, watery eyes
Three to five days after symptoms begin, a rash starts to appear. The rash usually looks like flat red spots that break out first on the face and spread downward to the neck, trunk, arms, legs and feet.
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People who may have been exposed to measles should contact their health care provider if they develop cold-like symptoms with a fever and/or rash as described above. If you may have been exposed to measles and you have symptoms, you should NOT go to any health care facility without calling first. This will help the health care facility prepare for your arrival and allow the facility to provide instructions to you to reduce possible exposure to others at the facility.
Director of DHSS, Dr. Randall Williams, says, “If someone has measles, it is important they stay isolated from others to keep from spreading it. Measles is extremely contagious, and you can have very severe outcomes. For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it. If you are diagnosed with measles, it is important to follow the instructions of your health care provider and public health officials to protect your family and community.”
How is it possibke to have a measles outbreak? Dont the immunizations for this disease start at age 2 months? Do these immunizations not provide imunity? If not, then why give them to kids? Ever hold a screaming kid getting one of these shots? Not fun.
You might have missed it but many parents refuse to vaccinate their children because of alternative facts pushed by a few groups.
Good questions. I’m a pediatrician in Maryland. MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccines are given at 1 year with a booster at 4 years old. Similar to other medical treatments, no vaccine is 100% effective. However, getting the vaccine greatly reduces a child’s chance of both getting the disease and dying from the disease. No, it’s not “fun” to hold your children down to receive a vaccine, but it’s considerably less fun to visit them in the hospital or worse. You may want to refer to the CDC website on MMR for accurate data. There are also links for the other childhood vaccines on CDCs site,
The immunizations start at 1 and it is a very effective vaccine
Many people come to this country legal or otherwise. Who knows what state of vaccination they may have.
That is certainly not the issue here Jo, as over 160 countries worldwide have it as part of normal vaccination process according to the World Health Organization. Immunization lasts for years and costs about 70 cents per does. See above George’s comment. This is the issue.
Lost of data actually exists on who is vaccinated for what, you just need to look it up. Cheers.
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