By The Associated Press
SEATTLE — State health officials say a Whatcom County man is the seventh person in Washington state to get the measles this year.
Health Department spokesman Donn Moyer says the man was exposed while visiting a contagious relative in California.
They do not know if his relative’s illness was related to the Disneyland measles outbreak that began in December. He was not exposed to the other Washington cases.
Six other people in the state have contracted measles this year: four people in Clallam County and two in Grays Harbor County.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report more than 150 people across the United States have gotten measles this year.
Three-quarters of those cases are related to the Disneyland outbreak.
