Although New Mexico’s measles outbreak is officially over, people could have been exposed to the virus by an out-of-state traveller who stayed at an Albuquerque hotel in late December. On Tuesday the Department of Health announced the exposure incident at the Quality Inn near Juan Tabo Boulevard and I-40.
The traveller in question, a South Carolina man, was in the hotel at 450 Paisano Street NE on Sunday December 28 at about 11:45 p.m. until the next morning at 7 a.m., according to the DOH.
Officials urge anyone who might have been there at those times to check their vaccination status, and to be mindful of any measles symptoms for the next three weeks…