Health & Fitness
Measles Exposure Reported On Google Campus, Health Officials Say
The Mountain View campus has at least one confirmed case of the highly-contagious health condition traveling across the United States.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Google is facing an internal intruder with at least one confirmed case on its Silicon Valley campus of the measles, which is running rampant in the United States this year, Santa Clara County Public Health announced.
Thousands of staffers work at the tech giant located in Santa Clara County where Patch has already reported a few known cases of those who either left the country or reside here.
“San Mateo County Health has confirmed a case of measles in one of (its) residents who visited Google in Santa Clara County. This case is not connected to previous cases in Santa Clara County, and there is no additional risk to the public," the Health Department's spokeswoman Marianna Moles told Patch. "Due to medical privacy laws, we are unable to release further information about this case."
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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department immediately responds to suspected cases of measles by conducting an investigation into the contacts the parties in question have made to identify individuals who may be at risk given the measles ample contagion.
The investigation traces each place where the contagious individual might have spent time, then tries to identify each person who might have been exposed in those places.
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In an email sent to some employees last week and obtained by BuzzFeed News, a staff doctor at Google wrote that a worker who had recently been in one of its Mountain View buildings had been diagnosed with measles.
“We have been working with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department and they would like us to share this measles advisory, which contains information on measles, exposure risks and actions to be taken,” Kaye wrote on April 13, adding that “this note is just a precaution,” as Buzz Feed reported.
Google has not responded to requests for comment.
Ironically, public health experts have blamed the resurgence on anti-vaccine falsehoods spread on social media.
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