{"id":802384,"date":"2019-12-17T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376105"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:10:09","slug":"health-officials-warn-of-measles-exposure-at-denver-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/health-officials-warn-of-measles-exposure-at-denver-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials warn of measles exposure at Denver International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denver International Airport has the second largest network within the United States, with 180 destinations.<\/strong>
Andy Cross \/ Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

DENVER (AP) \u2014 People who traveled through Denver International Airport last Wednesday afternoon may have been exposed to measles, Colorado health officials said Monday.<\/p>\n

Three children who were in the airport that day tested positive for the highly contagious disease after traveling to a country where there was an outbreak, officials said.<\/p>\n

Health officials don\u2019t consider this an outbreak because the children are related, the Tri-County Health Department said in a statement. But they are warning people who were in the airport between 1:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. on Dec. 11 that they may have been exposed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how many people came in contact with the children. About 179,000 people passed through the airport that day, spokeswoman Emily Williams told The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

Health officials are also notifying people who were at the Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado\u2019s Anschutz Emergency Department between 1 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this investigation for a reason, and that reason is precisely to prevent secondary spread \u2014 and having a non-ideal vaccination rate in Colorado isn\u2019t helping matters,\u201d said Dr. Bernadette Albanese, a medical epidemiologist.<\/p>\n

Colorado\u2019s immunization rate for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination was 87.4% last school year, which is below the threshold needed to protect a community from a measles outbreak. The three children who tested positive had not been vaccinated, officials said.<\/p>\n

There is no ongoing risk of exposure at the two locations.<\/p>\n

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