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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two pediatric cases of measles person been confirmed in Tulare County.
The county's nationalist wellness section says they were siblings, some nether 5 years old, and unvaccinated. The Tulare County Deputy Health Officer says they were experiencing a fever, a runny nose, and a rash.
"Prevention done vaccination is the lone effectual way," said Dr. Thomas Overton, Tulare County's Deputy Health Officer. Overton tells YourCentralValley.com that there's nary circumstantial attraction for measles.
"One retired of 3 children retired of 1,000 tin extremity up dying from this disease," said Leticia Bereber, health educator at the Fresno County Department of Public Health. Children nether 5 years aged and adults implicit 20 years aged are the ones astir astatine risk.
Common symptoms see a precocious fever, cough, a runny nose, and a rash.
"That rash starts connected your hairline. It doesn't commencement connected your neck. It starts connected your hairline and comes down your body," Berber added.
The Tulare County Health Department is actively moving connected identifying and tracing immoderate imaginable exposures.
"Making definite that nary of the contacts person immoderate measles symptoms arsenic well," Overton explained.
As of July 21, determination person been 18 confirmed measles cases this twelvemonth successful California, 2 of which were successful Fresno County backmost in March.
"One idiosyncratic that traveled retired of the country and became infected with measles. When helium arrived back, helium came backmost with symptoms. After that, helium infected different individual," Berber said.
Neither of the adults was vaccinated.
Berber reminds that this vaccine is mandatory for school-aged children successful California.
"They request their archetypal 2 doses of measles earlier they commencement kindergarten," she added.
Children are eligible arsenic soon arsenic 12 months aged for their archetypal dose, but Berber says for those traveling to an country with a measles outbreak, children arsenic young arsenic six months tin person the vaccine.
