Kentucky's top doctor is urging Kentuckians to get measles vaccinations if they haven't already.

Dr. Stephen Stack, Kentucky's commissioner for Public Health, says 50 states have reported measles cases.

Kentucky isn't one of them.

But he says someone from Ohio with measles passed through the Cincinnati northern Kentucky airport in February.

Yesterday, Dr. Stark described what the measles is like for someone who's been vaccinated and someone who hasn't.

If you are vaccinated, you almost certainly will get no symptoms from measles.

In fact, the vaccine is so effective, you won't get sick at all and you don't transmit the virus if you are unvaccinated.

In the days before the vaccine was approved, which was in 1971, the symptoms were a cough congestion, a fever, and not a low grade fever.

Like the common cold, like this really bad flu fever, 104 degrees and you feel miserable and a rash or rash that was all over your entire body.

Red, blotchy spots all over your body.

In the unlucky ones, the complications are pneumonia, diarrhea, ear infections, and even sometimes brain swelling that can lead to things like seizures, developmental disabilities and other permanent brain damage.

In the unvaccinated population, pretty consistently more than one in five are hospitalized.

One in 20 develop pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death.

The most common age of death is under five.

Those are the individuals hurt the most by this disease.

If you're unvaccinated.

Dr. Stark says getting two measles vaccinations when you're a child means there is a 97% chance you will be measles free for life.