ANCHORAGE (KTUU) The Alaska Division of Health and Social Companies (DHSS) says that they’ve confirmed that a case of measles used to be detected on the Kenai Peninsula.
They warn that there is a “potential for wider community publicity, striking nonimmune folks in wretchedness for an infection.”
DHSS says that an unvaccinated teenager traveled to Arizona and through Seattle, Washington. After returning to Alaska, the patient began showing symptoms of the illness — basically fever, cough, sore throat and headache followed by a rash — over ten days after returning to Alaska.
The Alaska Insist Virology Laboratory did a polymerase chain response test that got here assist sure at 5: 30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16.
The teenager used to be reportedly spherical other of us and in public areas in Soldotna from July 8-14. DHSS has a suggestions.
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