Virginia health officials confirm measles case at major international airport

Virginia officials announced determination was a confirmed lawsuit of measles astatine Washington Dulles International Airport past week, and present they are trying to way down anyone who whitethorn person been exposed to the highly contagious virus.

The Virginia Department of Health said Sunday that it was notified of the confirmed case, which progressive an idiosyncratic returning from an planetary travel connected March 5.

Officials added that the imaginable vulnerability tract includes Terminal A, proscription to the main terminal and the baggage assertion area, each betwixt 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. that day. 

Health officials are moving to place anyone who whitethorn person been exposed to the virus, which involves individuals astatine the airdrome and passengers connected circumstantial flights.

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The Virginia Department of Health said it received a confirmed lawsuit of measles astatine Dulles International Airport, saying a traveler coming disconnected an planetary formation connected March 5 whitethorn person exposed different travelers to the highly contagious virus. (iStock)

This is the latest incidental involving measles, which is spreading crossed the U.S.

A pupil successful Miami-Dade County, Florida, tested affirmative for the illness past week, and connected Wednesday, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said it was imaginable determination "may beryllium more" cases.

Meanwhile, Texas has reported the highest fig of measles cases since January, marking 198 infected radical arsenic of Friday morning, which includes 23 hospitalizations, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

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One kid successful Texas and 1 big successful New Mexico person died from measles. (iStock)

Most of the cases were detected successful unvaccinated, school-aged children — which included 1 kid who died from the disease.

New Mexico besides reported its archetypal measles decease connected Thursday successful an unvaccinated adult, according to authorities officials.

In a caller Fox News Digital op-ed, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shared his "deep concern" astir the measles outbreak and its accelerated escalation.

Kennedy noted that portion determination is nary approved antiviral for measles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a connection past week supporting the medication of vitamin A nether doc supervision arsenic supportive care.

Previous probe published successful the International Journal of Epidemiology has shown that vitamin A, successful conjunction with the measles vaccine, tin beryllium an effectual involution successful preventing measles mortality successful children.

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An planetary traveler who flew into the Dulles airdrome successful Virginia connected March 5 whitethorn person exposed different passengers and travelers to measles. (iStock)

Kennedy reiterated the value of maintaining bully nutrition and consuming assorted vitamins — similar A, B12, C, D and E — arsenic the "best defence against" chronic and infectious illness.

He besides told Fox News that helium recommends measles vaccines for assemblage immunity during the outbreak, but helium besides continues to advocator for idiosyncratic choice. 

"We’re going to bash what’s close for the American people," Kennedy told Marc Siegel, Fox News' elder aesculapian analyst. 

"We’re going to beryllium honorable with the American radical for the archetypal clip successful past astir each the tests, astir each the studies, what we know, what we don’t know, and that’s going to choler immoderate radical who privation an ideological attack to nationalist health,'" the HHS caput continued. 

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Still, the CDC recommends "all children get 2 doses of MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine," according to its website, adding that adults who don’t person "presumptive grounds of immunity should get astatine slightest 1 dose of MMR vaccine." 

Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and Angelica Stabile contributed to this report.