Chicago migrant diagnosed with measles among city's first 2 cases since 2019

Two cases of measles have been reported in Chicago this week, including a young child staying at a Pilsen migrant shelter, the city's first cases in five years, according to the Department of Public Health.One case was identified in a young migrant at the new arrivals shelter in the Pilsen neighborhood, health officials said. The child's infectious period has ended and they have now recovered.

Nicholas Cozzi with Rush University Medical Center, who adds that measles is more contagious than COVID.So now is the time, he encourages, to see if you were vaccinated normally before the age of 6."When you were a kid, when I was a kid, having 2 doses of that vaccination, you are 94 percent covered," said Dr. Cozzi, who’s not surprised to see this case pop up, due to ever-decreasing vaccination rates and global migration.

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