From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— Health officials have identified the state’s third case of the measles this year in a person who traveled through Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport to Walworth County.
The state Department of Health Services on Friday evening announced it’s investigating the measles exposure in Milwaukee County alongside the City of Milwaukee Health Department and Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services.
The new measles case is linked to a confirmed case in another state. And it isn’t connected to other confirmed cases in Waukesha or Dane counties that were announced earlier this year, according to DHS.
Meanwhile, the agency’s wastewater monitoring program has also detected measles in untreated wastewater collected in Walworth County. It’s the first measles detection in Wisconsin wastewater, the DHS says.
Travelers on flight WN 266 from Phoenix to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, as well as those who were at the airport on Jan. 29 from 10:31 p.m. to 12:31 a.m., may have been exposed to the measles, the agency’s release shows. DHS says officials are working on identifying specific people who may have been exposed.
Meanwhile, no public exposure locations have been announced for Walworth County.
Of the two earlier measles cases reported by DHS this year, one has resulted in a hospitalization, according to the agency’s measles page. Under a section on vaccination status for these cases, it currently says “data suppressed.” Since the page is updated on Tuesdays, the latest case isn’t displayed on the site.
Last year’s measles outbreak in Oconto County resulted in at least 36 cases, all among unvaccinated people. Two hospitalizations were linked to the outbreak.
See the release below.
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