• COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Enlighten effectively being officials procure confirmed a case of the measles in metro Atlanta. The Georgia Division of Public Nicely being acknowledged Saturday the case used to be an unvaccinated particular person in Cobb County. 

    Officials are notifying of us that can had been uncovered to the virus between Oct. 31 and Nov. 6. 

    Of us that procure indicators of measles ought to contact their effectively being care provider directly. 

    “DO NOT bound to the doctor’s map of job, the medical institution, or a public effectively being sanatorium with out FIRST calling to allow them to be taught about your indicators. Nicely being care services who suspect measles in a patient ought to voice public effectively being directly,” the division acknowledged in a birth.

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    The virus typically starts with a fever adopted by a cough, runny nose and red eyes. A rash of dinky, red spots will originate up at the pinnacle and spread to the the rest of the body. 

    Here is the eighth confirmed case in Georgia this year. The Atlanta-primarily based fully Companies for Disease Administration and Prevention has extra files referring to the measles here. 

    Measles in Georgia


     


    •    2019 – 8 (previously)


    •    2018 – 0


    •    2017 – 0


    •    2016 – 0


    •    2015 – 1 


    •    2014 – 0 


    •    2013 – 0 


    •    2012 – 2 


    •    2011 – 0


    •    2010 – 1  


    •    2009 – 1

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