Measles outbreak in Washington state, neighboring Oregon | Local News Stories - Ontario Argus Observer

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CLARK COUNTY, Wa. — As of Thursday, lab results on 24 children and one adult from Clark County, Washington, were confirmed for measles. Most of those who contracted the highly contagious disease were unvaccinated according to a news release from Health District 3, Southwest District Health.

To date, no measles cases have been reported in Idaho or Oregon as a result of this outbreak. Health-care providers should consider measles in patients presenting with febrile rash illness and clinically compatible symptoms, especially if the patient recently travelled internationally or to locales in the United States experiencing a measles outbreak, including Clark County, Washington and Portland, Oregon.

Measles is a viral respiratory illness that is vaccine-preventable. According to the news release, it is characterized by a prodrome of fever (as high as 105 degrees Fahrenheit), malaise, the “three C’s” (cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis), and Koplik spots followed (two to four days later) by a maculopapular rash which begins on the face and moves downward and outward to trunk and extremities. Common complications of measles include diarrhea, otitis media and pneumonia. The incubation period from exposure to outbreak averages 10 to 12-days, and the period of communicability extends from four days before rash onset to four days after rash appearance, the release states.

There is a vaccine available to those who have never been immunized that should be administered within 72 hours of exposure, according to the release.



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