Students

• If you have NOT received the measles vaccine, and develop a high fever or a fever with a rash, you should call UW-Stevens Point Student Health Service at 715-346-4646 to be seen by a clinician.
  
  
• The Portage County Health Department (715-345-5350), or UW-Stevens Point Student Health Service (715-346-4646), can help arrange for vaccination if you are unvaccinated.

Faculty and Staff

• If you have NOT received the measles vaccine, and develop a high fever or a fever with a rash, you should call your health care provider at once.
  
  
• If you are not vaccinated, your health care provider can help to arrange for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination.
  

Symptoms include:

• an increasing fever
• coughing
• runny nose
• red, watery eyes
• rash that usually starts on the head and spreads to the rest of the body

If you did not receive the measles vaccine and develop these symptoms, contact your healthcare provider immediately.

Measles is spread through coughing and sneezing. If people breathe the contaminated air or touch their eyes, nose or mouth after touching an infected surface, they can become infected.

Measles is serious. It is a respiratory virus that causes a rash and fever, in rare cases it can be deadly. The virus can spread quickly among those who are unvaccinated. Help us spread the word.

Know the symptoms. Help us prevent it at UWSP. Get vaccinated.

Measles virus can live up to 2 hours on a surface or in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed.

Students

• The Portage County Health Department (715-345-5350), or UW-Stevens Point Student Health Service (715-346-4646), can help arrange for vaccination if you are unvaccinated.

Faculty and Staff

• If you are not vaccinated, your health care provider can help to arrange for MMR vaccination. For more information see the MMR vaccine information statement.
  

Some U.S. travelers have become sick with measles after traveling abroad. Anyone who is not protected against measles is at risk of getting infected when they travel internationally.

CDC Information for Travelers

CDC: Measles (Rubeola) For Healthcare Professionals