IF YOU STOPPED AT THESE GAS STATIONS IN EAST TN YOU MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO MEASLES
The Tennessee Department of Health has identified two locations where people may have been exposed to measles after the department confirmed one case had been identified in East Tennessee.
According to a release from TDH, “People who were at either of these locations during the dates and times specified below may have been exposed to measles:
- Mapco
- 200 Browns Ferry Road, Chattanooga
- April 11, 2019 from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- Speedway
- 2148 North Charles G. Seviers Blvd., Clinton
- April 12, 2019 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.”
The department is working to contact people who may have had contact with the man and thus exposed to the virus.
Anyone who was at either location during those times should check their vaccination status, watch for symptoms of the illness if they are not vaccinated and then contact their doctor and stay home if they develop symptoms of the disease, the health department said in the release.
Measles symptoms include fever, runny nose, body aches, watery eyes and white spots in the mouth, the release said, and several days after those symptoms appear, a red, spotty rash typically begins on the face and spreads over the body. These symptoms may develop any time in the 21 days after someone is exposed to the measles. About one in three measles patients will experience ear infections, diarrhea or pneumonia, according to the release.