US measles outbreak triggers quarantine at two Los Angeles universities

The quarantine affects the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Los Angeles and comes as the United States battles the highest number of measles cases since the country declared the virus eliminated in 2000.The United States has confirmed 695 cases of measles, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. Many of the case occurred in the states of New York and Washington.

That number was later reduced to 156 people, the Department of Public Health said in an email on Thursday, and the quarantine will end in a week. Since then, officials have released more than 40 people from the quarantine after establishing they had immunity. The UCLA quarantine will end by Tuesday, according to the Department of Public Health.

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