The Cibolo school told KENS 5 earlier in the afternoon there was a “confirmation of a measles case.” The state says they haven’t heard that.
CIBOLO, Texas — The Texas Department of State Health Services says there isn’t a confirmed measles case in the San Antonio area, contrary to a spokesperson for Legacy Traditional School Cibolo tell KENS 5 on Thursday afternoon that officials had traced a confirmed case to a first-grade classroom.
The school has not responded to KENS 5’s follow-up questions Thursday evening. The spokesperson had said in a statement that the school would be open Friday and a “thorough sanitization of the campus” conducted.
“There are no confirmed cases in that area,” DSHS officials said in an email. “Just because someone is being tested for measles doesn’t mean they have measles. There are a lot of different illness that cause a rash, and we want people to be thinking about measles, and we want doctors who see a patient with a rash that could be measles to have them tested.”
How a measles case would be reported to DSHS depends on where a potentially diagnosed staff or student member lives. If they resided in Bexar County, a confirmed case would first be reported to Metro Health. If they lived in Guadalupe County, the school would have the burden of reporting directly to the state, DSHS said.
As of Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services was reporting 124 cases of measles, mostly in the South Plains region of West Texas. Most of them affected unvaccinated children, although five people who are vaccinated have been among the cases, according to health officials.