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Two other residents of Los Angeles County contracted measles, health officials said Friday.
The new cases are linked to two others reported earlier this month and together represent an outbreak of four cases involving a nearby social group, the county public health department said in a press release.
The last two cases, reported on July 4 and 9, involved a UCLA employee and another person to whom no exposure site was associated.
The latest patients to contract the highly contagious virus are the thirteenth and fourteenth cases of measles reported among residents of Los Angeles County in 2019, not to mention eight non-resident patients who traveled to the county, health officials said.
The department said the majority of patients were not vaccinated. It is not known whether the two patients reported on Friday had been immunized.
This epidemic is not related to the epidemic reported in April that had quarantined hundreds of people at UCLA and California State University, officials said.
The ministry has not identified public places associated with new cases.
According to data from the California Department of Public Health, at least 58 confirmed cases of measles, including 33 cases associated with an outbreak, were reported in California in 2019.
Measles is a contagious virus that presents with symptoms such as rash, fever, cough, runny nose and watery eyes.
People with measles can transmit the virus by air or by direct contact, before knowing that they are infected and even before the onset of symptoms.
For more information on measles, visit the website of the L.A. County Public Health Department or call 211.
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