MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NC – The Public Health Department reported MondayΒ that measles has been detected during routine wastewater surveillance in a sample from the Sugar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Facility.
The Department has also reported that no cases of measles have been confirmed in the county.
However, cases in other parts of North Carolina have recently been reported and Public Health staff are continuing to monitor and investigate the situation.
Last Friday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported a case of the measles in Rutherford County, bring the total at the time to five cases in the state.
Meanwhile an outbreak of 300 cases is ongoing in Spartanburg, SC.
