Race on to ID people in contact with first confirmed measles patient in SLCo

SALT LAKE CITY — The first lab-confirmed case of measles in Salt Lake County during the current national outbreak has been identified, health officials announced Friday.

According to the Salt Lake County Health Department, the infected adult male was unvaccinated, and officials are concerned because the source of the man's infection is not known.

“They have not knowingly had contact with anyone who had measles, which means their infection is the result of transmission somewhere out in the community," said the department's executive director, Dorothy Adams.

County epidemiologists are attempting to notify people who may have been exposed to the patient, who is known to have visited a public location while infected. Anyone who was at the Taylorsville InstaCare location at 3845 West 4700