In November, as rising case number for RSV, flu and COVID worried parents across the country, parents in Ohio were faced with another, unexpected threat to their children's health: the measles.
Ohio's Columbus Public Health (CPH) and Franklin County Public Health (FCPH) announced a week into the month of November that they were investigating a measles outbreak — at the time four children, associated with a local child care facility. Measles, which can be easily spread by coughing, talking or being in the same room, is highly infectious. Indeed, measles is estimated to infect 90 percent of unvaccinated people who are exposed. It is also astonishingly contagious: only one virus, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) is known to be more contagious than measles.
