Measles warning at Lowell

Sun Staff Report

LOWELL – The Lowell Community Health Center warns the public about measles after a pediatric patient was diagnosed Thursday with a contagious respiratory infection.

The patient, recovering at home, was immediately isolated at the health center, according to officials.

However, all those who were in the main hall of the health center, in the children's waiting room, in a pharmacy or in a laboratory between 12:53 and 5:22 pm Thursday could have been exposed to measles.

In addition, the health center seeks to identify any person who has accompanied a patient or who has visited the laboratory or pharmacy between those hours and is therefore at risk of exposure.

Anyone who has already been vaccinated is not at risk. In addition, anyone born before 1957 and born in the United States is probably immune.

The health center asks patients who were there during these hours and who do not have a confirmed vaccination record to be tested for immunity and to be vaccinated. The health center will be open until 17:00. Saturday and from 8h to 17h on Sunday. Patients do not need appointments.

Anyone who is not a patient at the health center but who was present at the pharmacy, lobby, pediatric ward, or health center laboratory during these hours should promptly contact their primary care physician to determine if it must be tested and vaccinated. Screening and vaccination of these people is also available at the health center at 161 Jackson Street.

in Lowell.

The Lowell City Department of Health and the Lowell General Hospital are working with the health center to provide tests and vaccines.

The Ministry of Public Health uses it to identify any possible exposure of the person outside the health center.

Those who have not yet been vaccinated and who have been exposed, but who choose not to be, should be excluded from public activities, including work or school, from the fifth to the twenty-first day of the exhibition.

For more information on testing and vaccination, call the Lowell Community Health Center at 978-937-9700.

For more information on measles, the public can contact their primary health care physician, the Lowell City Health Department, at 978-674-4010 during office hours, or 24 hours. per day).