Babies at Palatine day care center diagnosed with measles

Source: Chicago Tribune

By Bonnie Miller Rubin and Michelle Manchir

Five children at a KinderCare Learning Center in northwest suburban Palatine have been diagnosed with measles, Illinois and Cook County health officials announced Thursday.

Public health officials are investigating the cluster of measles cases at the center at 929 E. Palatine Road, according to a a joint statement from health officials. Two of the cases have been confirmed with laboratory testing and the other three diagnoses are pending test results, the statement said.

All five children are under younger than 1.

The development comes about a week after Cook County officials announced the state’s first confirmed case this year of the respiratory disease, traced to a suburban Cook County resident that officials would identify only as being older than 18. At the time, officials listed three locations where others might have been exposed to the patient in mid-January -- including two in Palatine.

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