(Bloomberg) — Health officials in three Arizona counties said hundreds of people may have been exposed to the highly contagious measles virus, three days before thousands of sports fans pour into the state for the Super Bowl.
The National Football League championship game will be held in Maricopa County at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale on Feb. 1. Officials there, and in Pinal and Gila counties, are looking for people who have been to hospitals, grocery stores and a post office where infected residents visited.
"Measles is wildly infectious, which is why it is so important that we identify cases quickly and do our best to stop the spread early on," Bob England, director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, said in a statement. "That means keeping unvaccinated people who have been exposed to the disease away from others."
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