Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases, with one person being able to infect nine out of 10 of their unvaccinated close contacts.
As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil.
Officials at Wayside Elementary School in Bartlesville said custodians completed a deep cleaning to prevent spread of the highly contagious disease.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) released additional information for the public on Wednesday after announcing there is no cases of measles in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health says it has verified an employee at Wayside Elementary in Bartlesville does not have measles.
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