Overview

• The unvaccinated teenager tested positive after returning through Los Angeles International Airport and was evaluated and discharged from Rady Children’s emergency department without admission.
• County epidemiologists are identifying and notifying possible contacts from the patient’s visits to Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines Urgent Care on Aug. 6–7 and Rady Children’s Emergency Department on Aug. 6–7.
• Health officials are urging those at highest risk—infants under 1 year, immunocompromised individuals and unvaccinated adults—to seek post-exposure prophylaxis or receive the MMR vaccine.
• This represents San Diego County’s first measles case this year, following four travel-linked cases in 2024 and no cases from 2020 to 2023.
• Nationally, 1,359 measles cases across 32 outbreaks have put U.S. elimination status at risk as vaccination coverage dips below herd immunity thresholds.