Doctors encouraging vaccines after measles exposure in Merced County

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Merced County Department of Public Health says determination was probable measles vulnerability successful the community.

Action News made respective attempts to get answers from the Department of Public Health connected Monday.

They declined our petition for an on-camera interrogation and didn't privation to reply our questions, trying to get clarification connected the exposure.

After we asked for an interview, a spokesperson sent implicit a connection akin to antecedently shared information.

"Merced County Department of Public Health has confirmed a probable measles vulnerability successful the community. The Department has identified exposures done interaction tracing and is moving with those exposed individuals and healthcare providers."

"We person benignant of gotten utilized to the information that determination truly aren't immoderate much puerility diseases due to the fact that radical are vaccinated," said Doctor Rodrigo Dezubiria with Castle Family Health Centers.

Dezubiria says helium heard of measles vulnerability successful Merced County.

He explains that a lawsuit of measles tin beryllium confused with a communal cold.

"People bash get precocious respiratory things, a runny nose, a cough, congestion and worldly similar that, but past they bash make a beauteous pathognomonic rash. A rash to the look that past spreads to the neck, past to the body, and to their feet," said Dezubiria.

Measles symptoms lone look 10 to 14 days aft exposure.

At that point, radical could person been contagious for respective days.

Dezubiria says the viral corruption tin besides pb to terrible complications, including blindness, breathing problems and, successful immoderate cases, adjacent death.

It's hard to recognize wherefore determination is simply a spike successful cases, but Dezubiria encourages radical to enactment existent connected vaccinations.

"It's truly not the idiosyncratic getting vaccinated, but to person herd immunity. So that the much immunized the assemblage is, the little likelihood of a resurgence," said Dezubiria.

And that's the aforesaid sentiment implicit successful Fresno County.

"Individuals who are vaccinated are astatine precise debased hazard for getting measles. The cases we're astir acrophobic is if idiosyncratic has had planetary question extracurricular North America," John Zweifler, a aesculapian advisor with the Fresno County Public Health Department.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, determination person been 58 cases since the opening of the year.

On Monday, the CDC issued a wellness alert to doctors of the abrupt emergence successful cases.

The anticipation is to summation consciousness of the emergence successful measles cases crossed the US.

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