A total of 115 people were exposed to the measles in the county in the past few weeks, Humboldt County’s Department of Health and Human Services announced in a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. The department is fairly confident it’s identified everyone exposed over two days in Eureka. Over the Zoom conference, Humboldt County Health Officer Dr.

Candy Stockton said the department has yet to see a case from the exposure so far. “At this point, none of them have contracted measles,” she said, noting the potential window period for developing measles ends around 6:30 a.m on May 31.

The vast majority of the people were determined by Public Health early on to be vaccinated/immune, and 10 were given a post-exposure prophylaxis vaccine. Odds are this exposure will not become an actual outbreak, explained Stockton, because of the age of the people exposed and the setting. The exposures stemmed from a person traveling through Humboldt County.

The 115 people were exposed at the Days Inn on May 9 and May 10 and at Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital’s emergency room in the early morning of May 10. Stockton said out of the exposures, the vast majority were at the emergency department and over the age of 30.

Nearly half of the exposures were health care workers in some capacity and fewer than 5 were children. “The likelihood (of an outbreak event) is very low. Again, we’re very fortunate that most of those individuals who were exposed were over the age of 30.

” Stockton .