Officials in New York and Pennsylvania are warning people they may have been exposed to a person with measles last month. The patient, a young, unvaccinated child, arrived at Terminal 4 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on February 25. The child then got on a shuttle bus to Philadelphia.
Anybody who was on the bus between 9:30 p.m. and 3:15 a.m. should get tested for measles as a precaution.
Then, the child was taken to two medical clinics, where doctors diagnosed them with measles. Authorities in Pennsylvania said that the child went to a clinic in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, on February 26 from 11.45 a.m. to 2.15 p.m. Then, the child was brought to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia King of Prussia campus. Officials said anybody at the hospital from 12:52 p.m. to 3:02 p.m. should get tested for measles.
The measles scare comes a week after a child flew into Los Angeles International Airport with measles and amid a major outbreak in Texas in which a young child became the first person to die in the United States from measles in over a decade.
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