Measles

St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Fentems tells us what you need to know about measles and how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Measles can take hold when vaccination rates fall below 95%. Health workers say pockets of the state are at risk as immunization rates drop.

A person from out of state with measles reportedly visited the St. Louis Aquarium on April 30, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

The Illinois Department of Public Health is working to identify potential locations of exposure, including the clinic in southern Illinois where the patient sought care, to see whether any other patients were exposed.

State health officials said the pediatric patient tested positive for measles and that the case was a “associated with international travel.”

The city’s health director said during a panel Friday she’s concerned falling vaccination rates and a lack of federal guidance could put the state’s community’s at risk.

Since 2017, the percentage of Missouri's kindergarten-age children who have received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has dropped from 95% to around 90%, according to state health officials.

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