A public charter school in Naples has confirmed a measles exposure on campus after a visitor tested positive.
Health officials verified that an infected adult was on the campus of Naples Classical Academy for less than three hours on Feb. 10.
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As a precaution, the academy has canceled all public events through March 3.
Statewide, as of Feb. 21, there have been 114 cases reported, according to a Department of Health online database refreshed each Thursday. That's up from 92 a week ago.
Florida has the third most measles cases this year, according to the U.S. Measles Tracker, a dashboard hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
But the Sunshine State is only nine cases behind Utah, which has 123. Florida’s numbers lag behind by five days and are updated every Thursday, however, while Utah’s cases update at least every Tuesday.
South Carolina, which has been the epicenter of an outbreak that originated in Spartanburg County, has the most confirmed cases with 653, according to the tracker.
Florida's health department notified Naples Classical Academy of the measles case and has been in daily communication with administrators, Head of School Christopher Wester said.
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Wester told WGCU no additional cases have been reported at the academy since the exposure and that he believes the situation is under control.
The infected adult was a contractor doing work with the school and not on staff, according to WFTX-TV.
The exposure comes amid heightened concern about measles in Southwest Florida. The case count in Collier jumped from 66 to 83 over the past week – including several dozen at Ave Maria University. Lee County has reported two.
The “vast majority” of the university is vaccinated, and the health department is “on-site providing care and guidance,” according to Ave Maria's website.
Other counties with reported measles cases this year are: Alachua, Broward, Duval, Escambia, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Miami-Dade, Pinellas and St. Johns.
Approximately 81% of the reported cases are among people 15 to 24, according to health department data, and at least 76 cases were acquired within the state.
The health department's online disease dashboard does not display the vaccination status of measles cases.
The K-12 Naples Classical Academy, part of the Collier school district, is about 19 miles west of Ave Maria University.
Information from News Service of Florida was used in this report.
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