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Measles left baby 'teetering near death'

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 5:59pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nuria Koto hasn't been home since Aug. 10 -- the day she brought her 1-year-old son to the emergency room with an out-of-control fever.

Within days the baby, Mahi Abdallah, was on life support. And for the second time this year, measles was on the loose in Minnesota.

Mahi, who was infected during a family trip to Kenya, is recovering in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis.

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6th measles case confirmed in Cache County

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 11, 2011 - 5:39pm

LOGAN -- Health officials are investigating a new confirmed measles case in northern Utah.

It brings to six the number of cases in Cache County confirmed since early June and 16 statewide this year.

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Health board reports 15 cases of measles

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 11:21pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Fifteen cases of measles have been confirmed in Utah, the state Department of Health said Thursday.

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Measles infections on the rise in U.S.

Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 2:48pm

The U.S. is on track to have the most cases of measles this year in more than a decade: 118 through May 20.

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Student from Davis may have measles

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, April 25, 2011 - 11:05pm

RIVERDALE -- Some students are being excluded from participation at Good Foundations Academy, a charter elementary school, because they can't prove they are up-to-date on their measles, mumps and rubella immunizations.

A student who attends the school is ill with what could be measles, Davis County Health Department spokesman Bob Ballew said Monday.

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Measles exposure concerns officials

Lynn DeBruin The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 22, 2011 - 9:38pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Health officials in Utah are trying to contain a measles outbreak that may have infected hundreds of people who attended two recent community events.

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Hundreds possibly exposed to measles in Utah

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 22, 2011 - 7:15am

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health says hundreds who attended two recent community events may have been exposed to measles.

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Utah health officials work to contain measles

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 15, 2011 - 8:13am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah public health officials are continuing to contain a measles outbreak that has so far sickened five people.

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5 measles cases now confirmed in Utah

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 10:32am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Public health officials are confirming a fifth case of measles in the Salt Lake City area.

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Salt Lake-area measles cases shake up Top of Utah parents

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau

Last updated Monday, April 11, 2011 - 11:54pm

CLEARFIELD -- Four confirmed cases and six suspected cases of measles -- a highly contagious disease that can be spread quickly among teens -- in Salt Lake County have the attention of Davis and Weber-Morgan county health officials.

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4 Utahns confirmed with measles; schools on alert

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 11, 2011 - 3:47pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Four measles cases have been confirmed in Utah and one school district south of Salt Lake City has sent 66 students home who haven't been immunized.

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