The Arizona health officials announced that, the largest measles outbreak of 2016 is underway in the United States as some workers at a federal immigration detention center refused to get vaccinated.

According to the authorities, there are 22 confirmed cases of measles have been reported in the Arizona since late May. The private Corrections Corporation of America managed the all stem from the Eloy Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Thomas Schryer, the Pinal County health director, said that, probably, the outbreak started with a migrant but that detainees have since been vaccinated.

"And so they're actually the ones that are passing along the measles among each other and then going out into the community," Schryer said.
Cara Christ, the Arizona Department of Health Services Director, said that, the facility has been more responsive in the last few days and that a large number of CCA employees were immunized late last week.

"Once they understand how important it is and the outcomes it can have on the community, they tend to cooperate. So we hope to get a cooperative response from ICE," Christ said.

“You have to be pretty darn sick to trigger a four-day stay in the hospitals.” “It's not really something to play with, and maybe they just underestimated the seriousness of it,"  Schryer said,

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