Georgia measles case mystery, exposures quarantine

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.How and where an unvaccinated Georgia resident recently became infected with measles remains unknown and multiple unvaccinated people continue to be in quarantine because they are at risk of developing the disease, according to the state’s health department. It is unknown whether the person – a resident of Bryan County, near Savannah – became infected in Georgia through undetected measles spreading within the state, or if the infection occurred during recent travel to Washington, D.C., the Georgia Department of Public Health said Thursday in response to questions from Healthbeat.“We cannot definitively determine whether the individual was infected in Georgia or during travel, but there is no record of exposure to a known case of measles,” said department spokesperson Nancy Nydam Shirek.The District of Columbia has reported no confirmed cases of measles through Feb. 26, according to the Centers for D