Lake County health officials issue measles alert
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Health officials in Lake County say people who visited a particular home-improvement store on Feb. 15 may have been exposed to the measles virus.
The Lake County Health Department said Thursday that people who visited or worked at the Menards store on Lake Cook Road in Long Grove on Feb. 15 may have been exposed to measles. A person with measles at the store on that date could have been contagious. People who've been vaccinated are not at risk.
Free vaccination clinics will be offered for customers and employees of the store who feel they may have been exposed. Dates and times for those clinics are being determined.
There are now 15 confirmed cases of measles in Illinois, all in Cook County.
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