Colombia, MD – A resident of Howard County, who traveled outside the United States, signed a measles contract, state health officials said on Sunday. The passenger was exposed on the same day at Dolis and people who went to John Hopkins Howard County Medical Emergency Department at Washington’s International Airport.
A Howard County resident recently traveled internationally for measles, according to the Maryland Department of Health and Howard County Health officials. The man’s age, hometown and other information were not released.
State health officials said the matter was not related to the spread of measles in Texas and New Mexico. As of March 7, 198 measles cases have been reported in Texas and 10 cases have been confirmed in New Mexico. According to, a death reported in each state Centers for control and prevention of diseases.
As a precaution, officials of the state Maryland and County are harmonizing to identify those who have been exposed, including potentially exposed passengers in specific airline flights.
Anyone who visits these places on these dates and times may be exposed to:
- Washington Dolls International Airport: International arrival area
- March 5, from 4 pm to 9pm
- Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department in Columbia
- March 7, 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
The initial symptoms of measles are more than 101 degrees Fever, nose, cough and red, water eyes. Generally, after one to four days of initial symptoms, a red itching appears on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.
Symptoms of measles usually occur after 10-14 days of virus exposure, but can soon develop seven days and after 21 days of exposure. The person suffering from measles is contagious, which begins four days before the itch begins, until four days after itching begins.
People are generally considered to be immunized by measles if they have two measles vaccine shots, before it had laboratory evidence of measles or infection, or they were born in the United States before 1957. People who are at risk of more complications than measles infection are pregnant women, children under the age of one, and who make immune compromises.
People who are likely to be exposed and are not exempt from those dangerous groups should contact their health care provider or call for additional guidance at the Howard County Health Department’s infectious disease and responding program at 410-313-6284.
Virginia residents can email the Virginia Department’s Health (804) 363-2704 with questions about their potential exhibition or email_rosponi@vdh.virginia.gov.
Health officials said that people, especially those who are not vaccinated with measles or are not safe from measles in any other way, were present at any of these locations during the possible exhibition times, with the potential for 21 days to monitor themselves for the initial symptoms of measles for 21 days.
Anyone who produces other symptoms of fever or measles should not go to children’s care, school, work, or public. Instead, they should first contact their health care provider instead of going to the waiting room or emergency room to take steps to prevent the spread of extremely contradictory disease.
Measles can stay infectious in the air and surfaces for two hours, after which the area of ​​an affected person is released.
Measles cases are found intermittently in Maryland with a case of measles in the state in 2024, In a 2023And no cases from 2020-2022.
