DENVER — Colorado is experiencing the worst measles year in three decades after five additional cases of the highly contagious virus were confirmed in Mesa County over the Labor Day weekend.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) on Saturday announced additional exposures of the preventable disease but made no mention of the additional cases in the county. It was only after Denver7 looked through the state’s measles case information webpage that we found the state had added the additional cases to its tally, bringing the total so far this year to 27.

The last time Colorado saw that many cases of the virus was in 1995, when the state reported 26 for the whole year to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

State health officials said Satur

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