Thousands exposed to measles at Disneyland and LAX as cases explode…

Thousands of vacationers and parkgoers might have been exposed to measles after a individual confirmed to have the virus visited Disneyland, then flew out of LAX.

The Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) said in a Saturday assertion that an worldwide traveler with a confirmed case of measles got here through the extraordinarily busy airport and visited Disneyland in close by Anaheim, California.

The particular person allegedly visited Goofy’s Kitchen in Disneyland Hotel from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, then Disneyland Park and Disneyland California Adventure Park until closing at 9 p.m. that same day.

The worldwide traveler reportedly arrived at LAX on Monday morning, coming into Tom Bradley International Terminal B on Viva Aerobus flight 518 at gate 201A. People at the terminal might have been exposed between 10:45 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Tuesday, the County of Los Angeles Public Health said in a assertion.

Officials at both LAX and Disneyland are now urging people who had been in both areas during those instances to test their immunity statuses, either through prior infections or vaccination, and monitor for symptoms.

“People who were at these locations during the date and time listed above may be at risk of developing measles from 7 to 21 days after being exposed,” the assertion reads.

California has recorded three confirmed measles cases this 12 months, but a whole lot more have been recorded across the nation amid one of the worst resurgences of the disease since it was declared eradicated in the early 2000s.

As of Jan. 30, the South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) recorded 847 measles cases since October 2025, surpassing the large outbreak in Texas last 12 months that contaminated over 800.

In 2026 alone, there have been 558 cases of those reported, DPH said. There are now 443 people in quarantine and 20 in isolation, as nicely as an extra dozen colleges that have college students under quarantine measures.

Another 19 people have been hospitalized with measles and issues from it since the outbreak started in October, but no deaths have been reported in the state or nationwide in 2026 so far. There had been three deaths from the disease in 2025.

As of Jan. 29, the CDC reported only 588 cases of measles nationwide, but those figures aren’t as current as those up to date by South Carolina. A separate database maintained by the Johns Hopkins Center for Outbreak Response Innovation (CORI) reported 658 cases in 2026 — 524 of which had been situated in South Carolina.

Cases have also been reported in Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Cases in North Carolina, Washington state and California have all been linked to the South Carolina outbreak.