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Nearly 700 students and staff at UCLA and Cal State LA remain in quarantine Saturday after the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health warned they may have been exposed to measles.
The quarantine comes amidst the largest nationwide measles outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.President Donald Trump told White House reporters Friday that Americans “have to get their shots” and that vaccinations are “so important.”
The current count of confirmed measles cases sits close to 700, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over 300 of those cases are from an outbreak in Brooklyn and Queens, mostly involving members of the Orthodox Jewish community. In Rockland County, also in New York, 201 cases were confirmed as of Friday.
The quarantine at UCLA was put in place Monday in response to a contagious student who attended class April 2, 4 and 9, according to a message from Chancellor Gene Block. Eight faculty members and 119 students were initially quarantined, but that number has since been steeply reduced. Thirty students and employees remain quarantined.
At Cal State L.A., 106 staff members and 550 students are still under quarantine after someone with measles entered a campus library, according to a statement from the university. The potential exposure took place April 11 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Library North, the statement said. The L.A. County Department of Public Health said there is no current measles risk at the library.
As of Friday afternoon, 110 students and 21 staff members had been cleared from the quarantine, the latest university statement said. Exposed individuals will remain in quarantine they can prove their immunity with medical records and are deemed not likely to come down with the disease.
The latest across California
Twenty-eight adults and 10 children have been diagnosed with measles in California this year, including three confirmed cases in Sacramento County.
The third Sacramento County case was confirmed April 24. All three were within the same family, and were the first confirmed cases of measles in the county since 2012. Sacramento County health officials said anyone potentially exposed to the virus was notified but would not specify how many people that may be, though they concluded after an investigation there was minimal exposure to the public.
Los Angeles County has had six total cases in 2019, while both Placer and Sacramento reported three, according to the state Public Health Department. San…
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