UCLA employee may have spread measles at campus food court

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A UCLA employee who contracted measles may have exposed students and others to the highly contagious disease, according to campus officials.

A university employee was diagnosed with measles on Monday. But health officials say he may have infected students when he ate lunch at the Court of Sciences Student Center food court between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on July 2 and July 3, according to health officials.

This week, UCLA officials notified employees who may have been exposed. If those employees do not have proof of immunity to measles, they may not come to work until it can be proven that they don’t have measles, according to a statement from UCLA Assistant Vice Chancellor Michael J. Beck. The news comes as the country grapples with its worst measles outbreak in decades. As of Monday, 1,109 people nationwide had been diagnosed with measles in 2019, compared with 372 people in all of last year.

 

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Typhus.....measles....next up, the plague. Welcome to LA. 😎

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