Quarantine measures are underway at an ICE detention facility in Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced that a measles outbreak had occurred at an ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
According to reports, two detainees tested positive for measles and were placed in quarantine.
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NBC News was the first to report on the measles outbreak:
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Two detainees were infected with measles at a Texas immigration facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father had been held, a Department of Homeland Security official said Sunday.
The two patients at Dilley Immigration Processing Center were quarantined, alongside anyone else who may have made contact, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “All movement” within the facility was halted, she said.
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