Overview

• Four of the confirmed cases are connected across Woodford and Fayette counties, while a fifth in Todd County stems from international travel exposure.
• Public health officials traced at least one exposure event to the Riney B. Aquatic Center in Nicholasville on June 20, where hundreds of visitors may have been at risk.
• None of the infected individuals had received the recommended two doses of the MMR vaccine.
• Kentucky’s kindergarten measles immunization rate of 86.9 percent falls below the national average of 93 percent, leaving communities vulnerable.
• The outbreak is part of the largest U.S. measles resurgence since 2000, with over 1,200 cases this year and at least two confirmed child fatalities.