BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Two counties in Kentucky now have eight confirmed cases of measles, raising concern among health officials.
One of the counties with confirmed cases, Todd County, is just under an hour from Bowling Green. With the reported cases, doctors are especially worried about those with autoimmune diseases, weakened immune systems and infants under 1 year old.
Dr. Suman Shekar, an internal medicine and primary care physician with Med Center Health, says, “It is highly, highly contagious, much more contagious than COVID or the flu.”…