At least three people have been diagnosed with measles in New Jersey this year. A look at the symptoms, complications and vaccine recommendations.
The cases identified in New Jersey are separate from a serious measles outbreak that has swept through West Texas in the last month, with doctors diagnosing 124 cases in nine counties.
The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed an initial measles case on Feb. 14 in an unvaccinated individual, and by Feb. 20, two additional cases were identified in people who had close contact with the original patient.
New measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky with the one common factor being a lack of measles vaccinations.
The spread of measles in New Jersey comes as 124 people have been infected by the disease in Texas, where one child died.
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