Anyone who visited O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday morning or afternoon and who has not had a measles vaccination may need to be tested after a passenger with a confirmed case of the highly contagious disease landed and boarded another flight, state health officials said.
A passenger with a confirmed case of measles landed at the international terminal (Terminal 5) on Wednesday morning and departed on a domestic flight from Terminal 1, according to a statement from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The passenger, who was “infectious on that day, may have traveled to other areas of the airport,’’ the department’s statement said. People who were at O’Hare between 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. could have been exposed, the statement said.
Though “most people have been vaccinated routinely in childhood and are not at high risk … of most concern are people who have not been vaccinated,’’ the statement said.
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