Last month, the Panhandle Health District announced North Idaho’s first confirmed measles case since the early ’90s. On Aug. 12, an unvaccinated child in Kootenai County was confirmed to be infected and then on Aug. 20, the health district announced another unvaccinated child in Bonner County had measles.
By Aug. 25, the Spokane Regional Health District, or SRHD, announced that a Spokane County resident was “presumed to be positive for measles,” after being exposed in a high-risk setting, which included Providence Sacred Heart’s pediatric and adult emergency departments, and its pediatric oncology and hematology specialty clinic.
In an interview with the Inlander last week, SRHD epidemiologist Jenni Horecny confirmed that an infant in Spokane contracted measles after exposure related to one of the North Idaho cases…