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There has been a confirmed case of measles in Walworth County. Members of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced on Friday that they are investigating a confirmed case of measles in Milwaukee. The DHS, along with the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) and Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services, is investigating a case of measles that was confirmed in a person who was traveling through Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport to Walworth County.
The person was exposed to measles in a different state. Health officials are working to identify and notify those who may have been exposed to the virus and will reach out directly to individuals identified as close contacts to the individual. Measles is a highly contagious disease that can be spread from person to person through the air and can stay in the air for two hours after a sick person coughs or sneezes. It is so contagious that if one person gets it, up to 90% of the people around them may also become infected if they are not vaccinated.
Symptoms of the measles virus include a runny nose, a high fever, tiredness, coughing, red, watery eyes, or conjunctivitis, and a red rash that begins at the hairline and moves down towards the arms and legs around three to five days after symptoms begin. The virus can also cause severe health complications such as pneumonia, brain damage, and deafness, according to the DHS. In some cases, the virus can be deadly.
One in four people who contract the measles virus in the United States are hospitalized. Any individual who develops symptoms of measles should stay home and contact their local care provider. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has a 97% effective rate at preventing the virus. In addition, those born before 1957 are considered to be immune to the virus and don’t need to get the vaccine. There are no other known cases of measles in Walworth County at the moment.
DHS encourages all Wisconsinites to check their vaccination status to make sure they and their family are protected from measles. Adults without laboratory evidence of immunity should receive at least 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, and children should receive 2 doses. This horrid disease, so ravaging past generations of Americans and citizens of other countries, is so very preventable by vaccinations. Still, the far-right-wing political group in the USA is too idiotically swayed by phony physicians to get vaccinated, even if it is to maim or kill their children.
Don’t be one of them. Donald Trump intends to attempt to withhold 600 million dollars from four blue states to cut money for vaccinations and other medications necessary for the country’s health and welfare. Get vaccinated, as your family, before such horrid, cruel actions may be allowed. The United States surpassed a milestone in reported measles cases, with 2025 now having the most cases since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 and the most cases in more than three decades. The monster that was measles for many people old enough to remember the disease before vaccinations were invented is back.
If the policies of RFK and the nation’s leader are followed, then we can likely, as a country, look forward to a return to Polio being prevalent in our children and possibly smallpox too. The billionaires only have an interest in having a respectable number of slaves survive to do their bidding.
