Measles cases send Michigan health authorities scrambling to avoid bigger outbreak

Potentially hundreds of people were exposed to measles in Wayne and Washtenaw counties over the last week as two adults who had traveled internationally and had no record of measles immunization sought care for their symptoms at two urgent care centers, a Dearborn pharmacy and two hospital emergency departments, state health officials told the Free Press. The exposures sparked a race against the clock for county health leaders to stave off an outbreak among unvaccinated people unknowingly exposed to the highly contagious virus when they visited: • The emergency department/triage...