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Measles Exposure in Maricopa County Highlights the Need for Continued Vaccination 

By |2024-02-15T08:56:05-07:00February 15th, 2024|General, Preparedness|

Earlier this week, the Maricopa Department of Public Health (MCDPH) identified a confirmed exposure of measles from an international traveler in Maricopa County. While no additional cases have been identified so far, measles is highly contagious. If you lack immunity and are exposed to the measles virus, you have about a 90 percent chance of [...]

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Maricopa County report of 3 measles cases puts focus on vaccination benefits

By |2022-09-01T11:52:38-07:00September 1st, 2022|Preparedness|

Today's report of three measles cases in Maricopa County is a sobering reminder that this rare and highly contagious disease can flare among those who aren't vaccinated.  Before the U.S. introduced a vaccination program, measles was a common illness in infants, children, and young adults. It can be severe: Approximately two out of 1,000 people [...]

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Public Health Agencies Working to Prevent the Spread of Measles

By |2019-03-11T10:01:28-07:00March 11th, 2019|Preparedness|

Late on Friday, working with Pima County Health Department, our Arizona State Public Health Laboratory confirmed Arizona’s first case of measles of 2019. A family and their young child traveled  internationally to an area with active measles cases and the child became sick with measles. The child’s health is improving now, but the work of [...]

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Measles outbreaks highlight the importance of vaccination

By |2019-01-31T10:30:17-07:00January 29th, 2019|Preparedness|

Earlier this week, the State of Washington declared a public health emergency due to a measles outbreak that has infected nearly 40 people to date. Luckily, no Arizonans have been infected with measles associated with this outbreak, but the fact that measles outbreaks still occur underscores the importance of up-to-date vaccination for all children. ADHS [...]

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Vaccine Preventable Diseases in 2016 – Measles, Flu, and Hib

By |2017-10-20T14:20:14-07:00October 20th, 2017|Preparedness|

The 2016 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Annual Report was released by the Office of Infectious Disease Services this past week. It highlights five vaccine-preventable diseases that disease detectives track and monitor, tasks that are critical to help identify cases and reduce further spread to others. This report covers the largest measles outbreak in the nation for 2016, [...]

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Arizona Publishes National Report about 2016 Measles Outbreak in Detention Facility

By |2017-05-31T09:22:30-07:00May 31st, 2017|Preparedness|

Office of Infectious Disease Services recently published a report in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) describing the 2016 measles outbreak associated with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in our state. This week marks the one year anniversary of the public health response to the outbreak. ADHS worked with Pinal County [...]

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Largest Measles Outbreak of the Year Just got Bigger (but don’t worry!)

By |2017-02-10T09:48:37-07:00October 28th, 2016|Preparedness|

Even though the largest measles outbreak of the year officially ended on August 8, the work did not stop there. State and local disease detectives, along with CDC, continued to review all rash illnesses reported in the detention center before the first measles cases were identified. The goal was to see if, looking back, these [...]

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Largest measles outbreak of the year… so far

By |2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 9th, 2016|Preparedness|

For the past three months, state and local public health disease detectives have been working tirelessly to bring an end to the measles outbreak originating from a private detention facility in Eloy, Arizona. This week, the outbreak is officially closed. A total of 22 cases have been reported during this three month outbreak, all of [...]

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Measles Outbreak Update: Is the End in Sight?

By |2017-02-10T09:48:45-07:00July 14th, 2016|Preparedness|

For the past several weeks, local and state public health have identified cases of measles in both detainees and staff members at a federal detention center in Eloy, Arizona; however no cases have been identified in community members unrelated to the facility. For the past week we have been holding steady at 22 confirmed cases. [...]

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Measles Outbreak Update; 11 Cases now Confirmed in the State

By |2017-02-10T09:48:49-07:00May 31st, 2016|Preparedness|

Since the end of last week, our disease detectives have been working with our local public health departments to investigate an outbreak of measles associated with the private detention center in Eloy.  This weekend we confirmed an additional nine cases of measles in the outbreak, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to eleven- and [...]

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