Mar 25, 2024, 9:35amUpdated 11h agoBy: Information 12 Employees The Nassau County Division of Well being is warning Lengthy Islanders that there was a “potential publicity to measles” on the Cohen Kids’s Medical Heart Emergency Division ready room and therapy space earlier this week.
Officers say the publicity passed off from 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20 till 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21.
In response to a information launch despatched out Sunday: “Cohens Kids’s Medical Heart is contacting sufferers who visited the emergency division on the time of the potential publicity and has recognized sufferers who’re at excessive threat who could require well timed therapy.”
It additionally stated one of the best ways to stop measles is to be vaccinated.
Northwell Well being despatched a press release to Information 12. It says, “Cohen Kids’s Medical Heart, the most important Stage I Pediatric Trauma Heart in New York State, is working intently with state and native well being officers after it was decided {that a} affected person who offered on the emergency division was discovered to have measles. The affected person was remoted and admitted on March 21 and is at the moment in steady situation. Measles is a extremely infectious viral respiratory sickness for the unvaccinated. “We’re contacting sufferers who visited the emergency division on the time of the potential publicity and have recognized sufferers who’re excessive threat and will require well timed therapy.”
The well being division says the kid is beneath 5 years outdated. Officers say the kid was admitted on Thursday in steady situation.
The kid has since been discharged from Cohen’s Kids’s Medical Heart, in line with a Northwell Well being spokesperson.
That is the third case of measles reported in Nassau County since 2019.