The Nassau County Division of Well being is alerting the general public of the potential of publicity to measles at Cohen Kids’s Medical Middle on March 20 and March 21, the division introduced on Sunday.The well being division stated it has been decided that anybody who was on the Cohen Kids’s Medical Middle Emergency Division ready room and remedy space, at 269-01 76th Ave. on the Queens-Nassau border, from 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, to three:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, was probably uncovered to measles.“These instances replicate the potential publicity interval when the contaminated particular person was within the recognized areas,” the well being division stated in a information launch.State well being officers on Friday night time introduced {that a} Nassau resident was the primary confirmed measles case within the county since 2019 and the third case in New York State this 12 months. On Saturday, state and county officers stated the affected person was a toddler. Officers stated Sunday the kid was underneath 5 years previous.State officers additionally stated Saturday that the kid, who lives in an undisclosed Nassau neighborhood, was hospitalized, however they didn’t elaborate on the kid’s situation.Jason Molinet, a spokesman for the medical middle, stated in an announcement that “Cohen Kids’s Medical Middle … is working carefully 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 presently in secure situation,” the assertion stated. “Measles is a extremely infectious viral respiratory sickness for the unvaccinated.”Medical middle employees are contacting sufferers who visited the emergency division on the time of the potential publicity and has recognized sufferers who’re excessive danger and should require well timed remedy, Molinet stated.Specialists say measles is a extremely contagious illness for anybody not vaccinated with the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, or who’s not in any other case immune. The vaccine is given in two doses, first between 12 and 15 months previous, and later between ages 4 and 6.People are thought-about protected or resistant to measles in the event that they had been born earlier than 1957, have obtained two doses of the MMR vaccine, have had measles, or have a lab take a look at confirming immunity.Measles could possibly be extra severe for kids underneath 5 years previous, in accordance with the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Measles may be unfold by respiration contaminated air or touching an contaminated floor. The virus can reside within the air for as much as two hours after an individual has left a room.The Nassau well being division advises people who might have been uncovered to measles and who’ve signs to contact their well being care supplier, a well being clinic or emergency division earlier than exhibiting up for care. Signs for measles embrace, however usually are not restricted to, fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis and runny nostril, in accordance with the division.The 2 different measles instances within the state had been in New York Metropolis, well being officers stated.With Lorena Mongelli Darwin Yanes is a local Lengthy Islander and Stony Brook College graduate who covers the City of North Hempstead.