Second Grays Harbor resident contracts measles

A second Grays Harbor resident has contracted the measles virus. An Aberdeen teen was diagnosed earlier this month.

The case comes after both patients visited Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., which has since been determined to be the apparent source of an outbreak. Since the outbreak, nearly 60 California residents have contracted the virus, according to the California Department of Public Health.

Joan Brewster, public health director for Grays Harbor Public Health and Social Services, confirmed on Thursday that a Harbor resident had contracted the illness. The second case, Brewster said, was a “close contact” with the first.

“This was not that unexpected,” Brewster said, adding that the second patient had been unimmunized from the virus. “Measles is very contagious.”

The earlier case marked the first time in 25 years that a Grays Harbor resident had contracted the measles.