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Health officials monitoring measles exposure sites in Salem
A person contagious with measles visited multiple locations in Salem from Feb. 18 to 22, local health officials said Friday. The Marion County Health Department is working with Oregon Health Authority to notify people who may have been exposed. Most Oregonians are vaccinated against measles…
UPDATE: No measles in Marion County, lab finds
Update: Lab tests indicated a suspected measles case was not measles, the Marion County Health Department said Saturday afternoon. Original story below: Health officials in Salem are monitoring a suspected measles case, the Marion County Health Department said Saturday. It’s currently unknown whether the suspected…
Salem health officials, schools prepare as measles outbreak spreads to Portland
Salem Hospital began asking patients about measles exposure last week due to an ongoing outbreak in the Vancouver area. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Salem health officials are urging people to make sure they’re vaccinated against measles due to an ongoing outbreak in the Portland…
Split in Salem health care industry leads to major insurance changes
(Jessica Floum/The Lund Report) The major Medicaid insurer in the Willamette Valley will not apply for a piece of the state’s largest procurement in history — the next contract to cover Oregon’s more than 1 million low-income Medicaid patients. Willamette Valley Community Health decided in…