Measles Update
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Kentucky's Public Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Stack's update on measles in Kentucky.
Kentucky's Public Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Stack's update on measles in Kentucky.
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Measles Update
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Kentucky's Public Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Stack's update on measles in Kentucky.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe have a measles update in tonight's look at health news.
As we told you on Monday, someone from Jessamine County tested positive for measles.
Kentucky's public health commissioner, Dr. Stephen Stack, says that person had not been vaccinated.
That person went to a revival at Asbury University on February 18th.
Dr. Stark had some of right advice today for anyone who thinks they might have the measles.
If you were at the Asbury event between the dates of, say, February 17 through 20, if you develop a fever, cough, runny nose, irritated eyes, and a rash or a red rash on your body, you should isolate at home and you should call your health care provider.
Don't just go show up unless you are in serious need of emergent medical care.
Call them first and say, I think I have measles.
Tell them why and they can help you.
Hopefully arrange or navigate how to get testing so you don't show up in a waiting room and infect everybody else in the waiting room.
So anyway, folks, measles will not be COVID, but this is something that we very, very clearly can keep ourselves safe from through vaccination.
So I urge all to make sure your children are up to date.
Dr. Stack says most adults are immune to measles because they were vaccinated as children.
But he says only 87% of today's kindergarten age children have been vaccinated for measles, according to numbers from the CDC.
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