5 Unreported Cases Started Cobb County Measles Outbreak

In all, 18 individuals – all unvaccinated – had measles this year in Georgia. No cases occurred during the three prior years.

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The recent Cobb County measles outbreak began in October with five cases that were not reported to public health officials.

Health officials didn’t learn of the October cases — all within one family — until they began investigating the six additional cases that emerged in November in the suburban Atlanta county.

Dozens of local and state public health officials mobilized to contain the outbreak, the largest in the state in decades.