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The Trumbull County Combined Health District confirmed two cases of measles in the county with the two people unvaccinated and the cases unrelated.
During the infectious period, one person was at the Walmart on Goldie Road in Liberty on July 29 and at Akron Children's Mahoning Valley emergency department on Market Street in Boardman on Aug. 2.
The health district stated it is working with Akron Children's Mahoning Valley and the Ohio Department of Health to investigate and notify anyone who may have been exposed.
Vaccination clinics will be 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. today at Mesopotamia Township Hall, 8800 state Route 534, and the same hours Tuesday at the health district office, 194 W. Main St. in Cortland.
The Trumbull health district warned people on July 24 that because two Ashtabula County residents with measles were at a July 18 horse sale auction in Bloomfield, those at that event were exposed to what it calls "a highly contagious respiratory virus."
The Ohio Department of Health on July 30 declared a "measles outbreak in Ohio" because a third person in Ashtabula County had the disease, as well as one in Tuscarawas County. Since then, five cases have been confirmed in Geauga County.
Most people have immunity to measles through vaccination, so the risk to the public is low, the Trumbull health district stated. The ODH reported an outbreak in Cuyahoga County in January and in Franklin County a month later.
The state has reported 15 measles cases this year. The state had 45 cases in 2025 -- including 10 in Ashtabula County -- seven in 2024 and one in 2023.
None of the cases in 2023, 2024 or 2025 were in Trumbull or Mahoning counties.
Symptoms of measles are high fever, cough, running nose, watery eyes and a rash that begins three to five days after other symptoms occur. Symptoms usually appear seven to 14 days after a person comes in contact with the virus, but it can take as long as 21 days for symptoms to appear.
People are able to spread measles four days before and four days after the onset of a rash, according to the health district.
Measles can be serious and about one in five people who get it will be hospitalized with complications, such as pneumonia, dehydration or brain swelling, according to the health district.
The vaccination is 97% effective against measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported 2,371 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. There were 2,289 confirmed cases for all of 2025, which was the worst year for measles since 1991.
There were three fatalities because of measles last year in the United States and none so far this year, according to the CDC.