Measles Confirmed in Another North Dakota County

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(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota now has multiple measles cases, including two that required people to be hospitalized, the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services reported.

Pembina County in northeast North Dakota added four confirmed cases this week, bringing the county’s total to nine, according to the department’s measles dashboard. One new case was reported in neighboring Walsh County involving a person who had traveled to Pembina County, the department said.

The department lists 26 eastern North Dakota sites where people may have been exposed to measles between Jan. 30 and Feb. 11.

Dr. Marc Nielsen, medical director of primary care at Altru Health System in Grand Forks, said “having that many exposure sites with an extremely contagious disease like measles is “tremendously concerning.”