FILE: A young girl receives the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine on Dec. 20, 2019. With measles confirmed in a Bay Area traveler, health officials are alerting the public to possible exposure in Santa Clara and Alameda counties. Anyone who visited the specified sites may be at risk if they aren’t immune to measles, or unsure if they have been vaccinated, health officials said. (Public Health Command/Pacific via Bay City News)

HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE WARNING that a Bay Area resident tested positive for measles after returning home from abroad and may have exposed others to the virus.

The traveler, who wasn’t hospitalized and is currently isolating at home, is the first measles case reported in Santa Clara County this year.

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