Thousands of people may have been exposed to measles during a recent gathering in Kentucky, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an alert on March 3.
Kentucky officials have confirmed that a person with measles, who had not been vaccinated, attended a religious gathering at Asbury University in Wilmore during the weekend of Feb. 17 and Feb. 18.
Some 20,000 people were at the gathering.
“An undetermined number of these people may have been exposed,” the CDC said.
The agency is advising people who attended the gathering, and are either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated against measles, to quarantine for 21 days to try to prevent spreading the virus to others….