JACKSON — Mississippi officials are monitoring four residents exposed to measles in Tennessee.
The health department says in a statement the four are under home quarantine. A health department spokesperson would not tell The Dispatch where the four lived, but confirmed it was not in the Golden Triangle area. They had not been vaccinated for the potentially deadly disease.
State epidemiologist Thomas Dobbs says those who haven’t been vaccinated are most at risk of the highly contagious, air born disease.
The department says any child 12 months of age or older should get vaccinations. Those who have been exposed should call the department if they develop a fever or rash within 21 days.
The Mississippi residents had been exposed to measles in Shelby County. It shares a border with north Mississippi and is experiencing an outbreak that began in early April.
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