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We're learning more tonight about Kentucky's first confirmed case of measles and more than a year.

>> Doctor Steven Stack commissioner of Kentucky's Department for Public Health says the patient is recovering.

The case involves someone and Franklin County who recently traveled internationally.

The person may have unknowingly expose people to the highly contagious virus at the Planet.

Fitness in Frankfort.

So far, doctor Stack says no other cases of measles have been reported, but he says we're not in the clear just yet more about this.

In tonight's look at medical news >> at this point, we're not aware of anyone else who has become infected.

Remember, we just announced that case within the last week and it takes 8 to 12 days for expose people to develop symptoms.

So we are only really now just beginning to get to the period of time where it is possible.

We could see others.

Measles is possibly the most contagious human virus on the planet at present.

You can have one person with measles is likely to infect at least 18 other people.

If someone with measles were to sit in this room with us for a short period of time, you could presume that you would have the risk of getting infected walking through that air for up to 2 hours after they left very, very contagious.

The most common things or you have cough, everybody knows you have red watery eyes.

You can develop a rash on your face.

It's kind of a fine red looking spot Suresh.

It starts in your face and spreads to the rest of your body.

And sometime a few days into Michigan developed little white spots in your mouth caught complex spots.

The mmwr vaccine, the one that we give to children is incredibly effective.

It's one of the most effective vaccines.

In fact, if you get 2 doses likely recommend and children are recommended to get their first dose at about one year.

And the second dose of kindergarten age about 46, if you get those 2 doses, you have a 97% prevention, right?

So meaning that you have less than a 3% chance of getting measles, even if directly exposed to it.

If you have 2 doses, if you only have one dose of the mmwr vaccine, given 93% prevention right?

If you are immunized or if you're over 70 or if you serving U.S. armed forces, you do not need to worry about this for yourself.

You are very protected and you should walk around and confidence that you are very safe.

There's never a guarantee, right?

There's always the uncommon are the rare case.

That's sad.

But but you should generally feel that you are safe if you aren't immunized and you are exposed to someone with me so she should presume that there's a very high risk you will get infected because measles is so contagious.

We have to have 95% or more of a community vaccinated against it in order to prevent its rapid spread.

And immunization rates have decreased.

So in Kentucky, for example, in 2019, we were at about 93% of kindergartners who are immunized 40 for measles.

That fell to about 88% during the COVID pandemic.

It's now back up to 90%.

But it's still significantly short of a 95%.

It's a physician.

I think I probably conservatively treated 50,000 people.

In my clinical career.

I never had a person come in with appendicitis.

Some say it's a natural thing.

I'll just go home and die.

I never had a person with breast cancer say it's a natural thing.

I won't take chemotherapy and radiation therapy and try to KET myself alive.

It is a sadness for me as a physician that these immunizations that many billions and billions of human beings have taken for many, many decades with great safety and they have nearly eliminated some of these diseases.

It's a great sadness for me that unfortunately there says counter narrative in society that immunizations are somehow unnatural or not safe when, in fact, the illness is so much