A heads-up from the State Health Department about a possible measles exposure.
Officials say a health care worker, employed by Hudson Headwaters, has tested positive for measles, and was at a number of locations in Saratoga and Warren Counties between June 5 and June 8 while infected, including a Saratoga Springs Home Depot and Saratoga Stadium Restaurant.
Anyone who visited the following locations at the times indicated may have been exposed:
- Home Depot (garden section of store), 3043 Route 50, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. between 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. on June 5, 2017.
- Hudson Headwaters Health Network – Warrensburg Health Center, 3767 Main St., Warrensburg, N.Y. between 7:25 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. on June 6, 2017.
- Hudson Headwaters Health Network, 9 Carey Rd., Queensbury, N.Y. between 7:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. on June 7, 2017.
- Hudson Headwaters Health Network - Warrensburg Health Center, 3767 Main St., Warrensburg, N.Y. between 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. on June 7, 2017.
- Saratoga Stadium restaurant, 389 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. between 6:15 - 9:30 p.m. on June 7, 2017.
- Hudson Headwaters Health Network – West Mountain Health Services, 161 Carey Rd., Building 1, Queensbury, N.Y. between 7:45 – 10:35 a.m. on June 8, 2017.
DOH says you're unlikely to get measles if you were born before January 1, 1957, have received two doses of the MMR vaccine, or have a lab test confirming immunity.
Symptoms include a fever, rash, cough, conjunctivitis or runny nose and usually appear 10 to 12 days after exposure.
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