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BOSTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The Boston Public Health Commission hopes to prevent something that has become rare in the United States, an epidemic of measles.
The steps being taken include vaccinating people who work in the downtown office building that houses the French consulate.
A consulate employee was diagnosed with the disease earlier this month, and tests confirmed Friday it was measles.
Dr. Anita Barry, the commission's head communicable disease specialist, said so far no one else appears to have the disease. But she said 1,500 to 2,000 people work in the vast Park Square Building, and the woman may also have come into contact with many more people traveling to and from work.
In 2006, measles spread from one employee in the nearby John Hancock Tower, showing up in East Boston, restaurants and another office building.
Employees in the Park Square Building are being encouraged to get vaccinated. Barry said people who had two vaccinations in childhood and older people with natural immunity from the days when most children caught the disease do not need to be immunized.
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