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HOUSTON (KPRC) – A Southwest Airlines passenger from northern Texas, infected with measles, changed aircraft at Houston Hobby Airport last month and may have exposed others to the virus.
Officials said the patient was contagious at the time of the flights, August 21 and 22. They stated that the passenger never left the airport and stayed in the waiting areas at the airport for about an hour each day.
Monica Nicholas of Dallas was on the same four flights and fell ill soon after.
"She started having spots on her legs, a kind of rash," said her husband, Brian Nicholas. "She also had flu-like symptoms."
The doctors then confirmed that his symptoms were not related to measles.
While Houston's health department says the passenger never left the airport and stayed in the waiting room, experts say travelers should always pay attention.
"The measles virus is very contagious," said Dr. Melanie Mouzoon, immunization specialist at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. "People caught measles in a waiting room at the airport two hours after the person with measles left."
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