LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Kentucky health officials announced the state’s first positive measles case of 2026 on Thursday.
Local and state health care leaders confirmed the infected person is an unvaccinated Jessamine County resident under the age of five. The Jessamine County Health Department said an out-of-state traveler exposed the child to measles.
The situation is raising questions on how to know if you’re protected against the illness.
Vaccines remain most effective protection
“If you go to a cemetery, you see a lot of monuments of children that did not survive their childhood back in the early 1900’s, back before that, because of all these childhood diseases,” said Scott Lockard with the Kentucky River District Health Department…