Measles exposures reported at multiple Portland-area medical facilities

Potential exposure to measles at medical facilities affects patients and healthcare workers, with particular risk to unvaccinated or immunocompromised individuals.

In the Portland metropolitan area, measles has found its way into the places people go seeking healing — a quiet but pointed reminder that vaccine-preventable diseases do not exempt the vulnerable from their reach. Oregon health authorities have confirmed exposures at no fewer than three medical facilities, setting in motion the careful, human work of tracing who was present, who is at risk, and what must be done next. The incident arrives against a backdrop of vaccination rates that have, in pockets of Oregon, fallen below the threshold that shields communities from exactly this kind of resur

Measles exposures reported at multiple Portland-area medical facilities

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