In health news today, state health officials are reporting a confirmed case of the measles in a jessamine county resident who attended a weeks long revival at Asbury University.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services said the person was unvaccinated and attended the event on February 18th.

Health officials said any unvaccinated person who was at the event that day said quarantined for 21 days and schedule a measles vaccination.

They also recommend everyone there on that day to watch for measles symptoms.

According to the state health cabinet, this is the third confirmed measles case in Kentucky in the last three months.

The other cases were in Powell and Kristin counties, which were linked to a measles outbreak in Ohio.

Dr. Chris Bryan with Norton Children's Hospital in Louisville, said the outbreak in Ohio demonstrates the importance of measles vaccination.

It is one of the most contagious diseases we know about.

If ten people who are susceptible, ten people who've essentially not been vaccinated are exposed to someone with measles, nine of them are going to get sick.

In late fall of 2022, there was an outbreak of measles in Columbus, Ohio.

There were 85 cases.

They were all in children.

So people under 18 years of age.

A majority of cases were in kids 1 to 5 years of age.

And out of those 85 cases, 80 kids had not received any measles vaccine and four kids had only received one vaccine.

The vaccination status for the last child was unknown.

And so we can look at that and say, Aha!

Who's getting measles?

People who have not been protected by vaccine.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kentucky ranks among the lowest in the nation when it comes to measles vaccinations and kindergartners.