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Measles Sickens 3 in North County
By ERIC S. PAGE
Updated 1:15 PM PDT, Mon, May 17, 2010
Three people in Carlsbad have contracted the highly contagious disease, according to health officials.
Health officials said a 3-year-old boy and his sister, 6, are believed to have been exposed by a 24-year-old woman who was visiting them who was in the Philippines in March and April. There have been 200 cases of measles reported in the Asian country this year.
...None of the people reported in San Diego to have measles were immunized.
"One child was treated at El Camino Pediatrics in the evening on May 10 and during the morning hours of May 12 at Scripps Encinitas Hospital," according to a county health department news release. "The 6-year-old attended Redeemer by the Sea Kindergarten and Preschool in Carlsbad on May 5 and 6, and the 3-year-old attended childcare at Carlsbad Community Church the morning of May 7."
County residents may have been exposed on May 7 at Roundtable Pizza on Marron Road in Oceanside between 5-8 p.m., and on May 8 at the Henry’s supermarket on El Camino Real in Carlsbad between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m...
Source: Measles Sickens 3 in North County | NBC San Diego
Measles Sickens 3 in North County
By ERIC S. PAGE
Updated 1:15 PM PDT, Mon, May 17, 2010
Three people in Carlsbad have contracted the highly contagious disease, according to health officials.
Health officials said a 3-year-old boy and his sister, 6, are believed to have been exposed by a 24-year-old woman who was visiting them who was in the Philippines in March and April. There have been 200 cases of measles reported in the Asian country this year.
...None of the people reported in San Diego to have measles were immunized.
"One child was treated at El Camino Pediatrics in the evening on May 10 and during the morning hours of May 12 at Scripps Encinitas Hospital," according to a county health department news release. "The 6-year-old attended Redeemer by the Sea Kindergarten and Preschool in Carlsbad on May 5 and 6, and the 3-year-old attended childcare at Carlsbad Community Church the morning of May 7."
County residents may have been exposed on May 7 at Roundtable Pizza on Marron Road in Oceanside between 5-8 p.m., and on May 8 at the Henry’s supermarket on El Camino Real in Carlsbad between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m...
Source: Measles Sickens 3 in North County | NBC San Diego