There’s a measles outbreak at Disneyland, and one of California’s top public health officials recommended that children under 12 and people who’ve never had a measles vaccination stay away from the park while the outbreak continues
However, Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the State Epidemiologist Center for Infectious Disease, said at a Wednesday press conference that Disneyland would be “perfectly safe” if you’ve been immunized.
When asked for a response to Chavez’s recommendation, Suzi Brown of Disneyland media relations said the company had no additional information to release at this time.
Forty-two of the state’s 59 measles cases since December can be linked to initial exposure at Disneyland and the adjacent Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California Department of Public Health officials said.
In addition, eight other cases from people living in Utah, Washington state, Oregon and New Mexico were linked to Disneyland, Chavez said.
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Health officials are concerned that an outbreak of more than 40 cases is occurring in the first week of January, Papania said.
“The numbers of cases seems to be increasing,” Papania said. ” Last year was record high and we are already high (this year).”
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CNN’s Kevin Conlon, Debra Goldschmidt and Joshua Berlinger contributed to this report
