Please Touch Museum (unless you have measles!)
People, please vaccinate your children. And by all means, if you don't, please don't take your children to the interactive
Please Touch Museum:
Someone who likely had measles visited a Wayne pharmacy on Sunday, Dec. 28 and the Please Touch Museum on Monday, state health officials said, possibly exposing people who do not have immunity to the highly contagious disease.
The possible exposures would have been at:
CVS/Pharmacy, 316 E. Lancaster Ave. in Wayne, on Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, Monday from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
As you might imagine, the Please Touch Museum encourages children to play with and
touch everything in sight:
So, if you visited that museum or pharmacy and you get any of the following symptoms, please get checked:
Symptoms of measles begin one to two weeks after exposure, and include a runny nose, watery eyes, cough, and high fever. After four days, a raised, red rash starts to spread on the face, down the body, and out to the arms and legs. The rash typically lasts four to seven days.
1:00 PM PT: The Please Touch Museum has been given the all clear:
The health department initially announced that person who "likely has the measles" may have exposed people to the highly contagious disease at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia on Monday from 3:30 to 5 p.m., but the person has tested negative for the virus, according to a statement from the state health department. They did not say whether the person was a child or an adult.
“Based on initial information received from those involved in the treatment of the individual and based on initial investigation by the department, it was believed this was a likely case of measles and public notification was made out of an abundance of caution," said Pennsylvania health secretary Michael Wolf.