The Brief
- A Pinellas County patient received an alarming call telling her she’d been exposed to measles.
- She checked herself into the emergency room at Baycare Health’s Morton Plant Hospital on March 17 and received the call five days later.
- Baycare said it reports any measles cases to the Florida Health Department, which, so far, only shows one confirmed case in Miami-Dade County.
CLEARWATER, Fla. – A Pinellas County hospital patient is urging the community to be alert following a recent alarming call telling her she’d been exposed to measles.
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Courtney Fellows said she checked herself into the emergency room at Baycare Health’s Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater on March 17. She said she received a call from the Florida Department of Health five days later.…