Health officials confirm that a measles outbreak in Oakland County, Michigan, is linked to an ongoing outbreak in New York
Michigan health officials confirmed the measles outbreak in Oakland County is linked to the ongoing outbreak in New York.
Lynn Sutfin, public information officer for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, told CNN that a male individual from New York traveled to Southeast Michigan by vehicle. "He was unknowingly contagious with the measles during his visit here. All 38 other cases of measles in Southeast Michigan can be linked to this individual," she said.
On Monday they added that two people contracted the illness from the UK and one from Ukraine. According to the World Health Organization, Ukraine has reported 72,000 cases of measles in the last 12 months, the highest of any country. In all, more than 500 cases of measles have been reported in New York as part of this outbreak -- 332 of them since January with more than 40 new cases identified in the last week.
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