Guilford County health officials are warning residents about a potential measles exposure after a confirmed case passed through Greensboro earlier this month.
According to Guilford County Division of Public Health, an out-of-state individual who tested positive for measles visited a Wendy’s at 2221 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on Friday, March 13, between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Anyone who was at that location during that time may have been exposed.
Health officials say measles is highly contagious and spreads through the air as well as by direct contact. The virus can linger in the air for up to two hours after an infected person has left an area, making even brief exposure a concern.
Symptoms typically appear seven to 14 days after exposure but can take up to 21 days to develop. County health officials are advising anyone who may have been at the restaurant during the exposure window to monitor for symptoms and contact a healthcare provider or the Guilford County Division of Public Health if concerns arise.
Common symptoms include a high fever that can exceed 104 degrees, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. In some cases, small white spots may appear inside the mouth a few days after symptoms begin. A red, blotchy rash usually follows, starting on the face and spreading to the rest of the body.
Health officials stress that measles is preventable through vaccination, but it remains dangerous, particularly for those who are unvaccinated. According to public health data, about 90 percent of unvaccinated people who are exposed to measles will become infected, and roughly one in five cases results in hospitalization.
“Getting vaccinated against measles continues to be the most important step we can take to protect ourselves and our families,” said Guilford County Public Health Director Courtney McFadden in a statement. “It is important to ensure you and your family are current with all your vaccines.”
The Guilford County Division of Public Health is encouraging all unvaccinated individuals 12 months and older to receive the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Officials also emphasized the importance of protecting vulnerable populations, including infants, pregnant individuals and those with weakened immune systems who may not be eligible for vaccination.
Residents who believe they may have symptoms are asked to call ahead before visiting a doctor’s office, urgent care, or emergency department so that precautions can be taken to prevent further spread.
Vaccinations are available through healthcare providers and the Guilford County Division of Public Health. Appointments at the county’s Greensboro and High Point clinics can be scheduled by calling 336-641-3245.
More information about measles is available through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
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Well, Wendy does have a spotty face….
Thank you anti-vaxers.
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Thank you, Third World illegal immigrants.
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Hey, did y’all see the photos of New York Mayor Mamdani hosting a dinner at the Mayoral Mansion to celebrate the end of Ramadan? Mamdani is a practicing Muslim from Africa, and the images displayed dozens of fellow Muslims eating on the floor, with their fingers. Putting aside that it’s disgusting, one of the guests held up a single index finger for the cameras, which is the hand gesture for ISIS, the terrorist organization.
Are Muslims a treasonous enemy in our midst?
their guvmnt is their religion – same threat from our ‘religious’ right- wing wacks
run! there’s a germ around!
Definitely, they came out of their hiding places in the foothills of the Himalayas and infiltrated American society. They have been responsible for infecting our youth with terrorist ideals and “Death To America.” It is disgusting that it has even happened in the first place, but now that it has infected one of the largest cities in our great country through this horrible mayor, Middle Eastern Muslims from these areas are ALL enemies of the state and shall be dealt with appropriately. The Second War on Terror has now begun. This is a sign that a Holy Crusade on the Middle East should be enacted, as it is time to stop this madness and blatant terrorism from these Muslims.
DEUS VULT!
im with stupid
Were they eating pizza like we eat with our fingers?!
The bigotry and lack of tolerance for foreign cultures is stunning in your comment. Not shocked given you history of such comments.
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What, like the bigotry of muslims regarding gays? Or their lack of tolerance for infidels? And dissent?
Some Muslims are very much bigoted against the LGBTQ community. So are many Christians. What is your point? And you don’t seem to be very supportive of dissent and neither is you big baby boy President cult leader. LMAO
But go for you for not denying your own bigotry and deflecting to others. Classic ploy that I bet makes Austin proud.
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Austin..??? WTF ????
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My God, I’ve really got into Chrissy’s head, haven’t I ? He mentions me in almost every comment he makes, even when I’m not in that discussion.
As Rush Limbaugh used to put it, I’m living in his head, rent free.
The poor fellow has mental health issues – as he once admitted.
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Oh no, it’s not bigotry to find disgusting practices disgusting. They practice FGM too – Female Genital Mutilation. I’ll let you look it up but, trust me, it’s disgusting.
They also have revolting toilet habits, another aspect in which they make use of their fingers, along with a small bowl of water.
And these are the people who’ll eat animal eyeballs raw – but say that a pork chop is “unclean”! They’ve got a lot of nerve talking about cleanliness.
Disgusting is as disgusting does.
No Austin, it’s just when I think of racist comments you pop in mind given how often you make such bigoted comments. But you be you
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Glad you’re confessing to your prejudice of me.
al, in germany it is ‘the bird’ not #1 i get in trouble @ auctions
i bet this wont be much of a problem. maybe one two cases at most. theres enough people already vaccinated that this measles virus will die out as soon as it pops up. isnt there a word for that? heard immunity?
Have you seen the numbers in SC…..not good.
While heard immunity works with measles (as with most viruses), it is fragile due to the virus’s extreme contagiousness. Achieving heard immunity requires a very high vaccination rate – typically 95% or higher – within a community to prevent outbreaks, as even small declines in coverage can allow the virus to spread when reintroduced.
‘Heard immunity,’ really? It’s herd immunity, about a group of people, not your ears. You somehow turned a simple science term into something that sounds like it belongs in a music class. Honestly, this is exactly what happens when liberals try to sound smart without checking the basics. You say it with confidence, hope nobody notices you’re wrong, and think it makes you look clever. It doesn’t. It just makes you look ridiculous.
leave the petty spelling arguments to austin. im not one to defend professor know-it-all chris, but he spelled it incorrectly because i did. there was no obvious stimulus to spell it correctly in the comment section’s context
Huh?
it’s operant conditioning run a muck ! captain
i would correct your spelling markl, but then professor know it all would out me as a hypocrite instead of actually addressing my points in any further discussions. well played. are you by any chance a chess grandmaster?
captain, i haven’t played chess since childhood but i would like to invent a ‘monopoly’ game that uses/teaches the fundamentals of accounting & economics: u in ? lets go ! call it ECONOPOLY
sure sounds fun lets get a group together. rhino times commenter in person meetup
My place is free. Come on over!
So you’re saying that you and professor are both guilty of being ignorant
Wait so the guy that claimed herd immunity would work for measles is the smart one. LMAO
Bold Strategy Cotton.
It was an easy mistake given the word is a homophone. But the science is arcuate. Ignore it you like. Being willfully ignorant is kinda the conservative’s jam these days.
Best wishes
i look ridiculous naturally & u made me cry, john ! this forum has put soap operas out of business ?
i bet john rutledge is a government plant or some random guy stirring nonsense for his psychology project
thats south carolinas problem. i get that diseases spread across state lines, but we just dont have the case numbers to justify any mass vaccination campaign. i could see it maybe being necessary down south if it begins to harm south carolina’s economy or cases continue to rise, but we are not at that point in the tar heel state. thats not to mention personal choice either. measles is not a lethal disease in the west and so government force is not necessary anyway
The key is that SC has some deeply rooted conservatives who are anti-vax within some small communities. I suspect they are centered around a church community as many falsely claim religious exemption to avoid the requirement for vaccines for public school and/or daycare access. Key is the need for 95% vaccination rate or NC will slip down the path of SC. Given RFK Jr and his reliance on conspiracy theories for public health policy, I am indeed worried for the conservative communities that believe the lies he tells. But yes, there is certainly a need for a mass vaccination….some notes on the impact of the disease:
Current death rate for kids with measles is 1 to 3 kids per 1000 that contract the disease. But 1 in 5 kids with measles require hospitalization with kids under 5 reaching 25%+ hospitalization rates.
Other than death 1 in a 1000 also suffer brain swelling that leads to permanent brain damage.
But the most important metric is that 90%+ of the kids hospitalized with the measles are unvaccinated. (no vaccine is 100% effective by itself….it takes a village.)
FYI, assuming you are older like me, you should consider the Shingles vaccine. While not a deadly disease either…..sure stinks to get it….
Best wishes
dont worry i got that vaccine last year
a recent study shows that shingles vac prevents & slows down alzheimer’s. i’m getting another Shingrix !
do you have alzheimers
‘herd’ edu captain obv please
this is why i dont go to wendys (among other reasons)…
Personally, I love Wendy’s. But to each their own.
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Our new Pollyanna strikes again !
Who is Pollyanna?
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Ignorance on your part does not constitute a problem on my part.
gil : walt disney movie character ?
Oh now I see. That was before my time.
what an idiot
I’ve got the grippe, and I can’t let go.
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Oh, good one!
MORE DANGEROUS ! THE FOOD ! you can always see metabolic disorder there
i have been saying this for years!
It’s clearly lupus.
DR – i have a skin form of it sans sequela. pill QD dun
The treatment is 3,846 maggots. Prepare to meet your doom.
DR., I’ve got the ‘wolf’ (lupus) maggots are still used in great britain to eat infected tissue (NPR Radio – this week)
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We like to drop one in our beer too, for a certain Je ne sais quoi…
Chat GPT explains:
As of the most recent available public health updates (early 2026), North Carolina has reported either zero or only a handful of measles cases, depending on the exact reporting week—there is no active statewide outbreak.
Estimated percentage
Using a realistic upper bound:
0–5 cases in a population of ~10.7 million
That equals roughly:
0.00000% to 0.00005%
What that means
Statistically, this is effectively zero at the population level
Cases, when they occur, are usually:
Linked to travel exposure
Contained quickly through public health response
Good use of fact Just Sayin….great to see someone use research to support their point of view. Well done! Wish more people would do this here.
The good news for NC is that only one county has a vaccination rate below 90% with the majority have rates of the ideal 95% rate. Let’s keep it that way!
i have the weasels – pray 4 me – there is no cure
So, this is “a whole lot of nuthin'”?
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Third World Hispanic illegal immigrant from South America murders a beautiful American 18 year old girl, just beginning college, and her life.
NBC Nightly News reported her murder, but refused to tell viewers that her murderer was an illegal immigrant who was “caught & released” into the US by the Biden Administration.
The media is not informing you, it’s trying to manipulate you.
Ignorant people make illogical conclusions. If you are saying Hispanic bad guy killed an 18 year old and that’s why we have to keep Hispanics out. You should look at all the crimes committed on that day by all the other groups. You will find that your group whom ever that may be committed more crimes and murder. By your logic they should be deported also. Or are crimes by citizens ok because they are here legally. Do you see how, uneducated that sounds.
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No buddy, ignorant people put words in other people’s mouths, and then argue against that position. It’s called making a straw man argument.
And if “my group” commit more crimes and murder than colored people, how come our prisons are full of non-whites?
There is a large range of studies on this topic with many valid explanations for why this is true. But I assume your thinking is off on this or overly simplified and likely bigoted (based on your comment history). But do you really want to discuss or are you back that your I ‘thunk so it mus be troo’ and you will use childish tactics to engage on the topic?
Let me know.
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Our resident Professor (who isn’t a professor) : “Bigot!”, “Racist!”, “Ignorant!”, “Childish!”, “Morons!”.
That’s what he rolls out in every comment. He really doesn’t bring much to the table.
Predictable, pedantic, and pedestrian. And a bore.
Just add the appropriate labels to your comments for what they are….. I also share a number of facts the support those labels which you clearly can’t refute so here we are….
Aren’t you one of the morons that gave me the title professor. Weird you now make fun of it….which is it? LMAO
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I am the guy who first called you “Professor Chris”, because of your arrogance, fake erudition, and condescension.
It is sarcastic – in case you don’t get it.
Yup so Professor will forever be your fault. Lmao. Love it!
JONES – Hare didn’t make those arguments, who are you responding to ? but i agree that the major medias have liberal/conservative biases because EVERYBODY has their ‘point of view’
true but most ‘communications’ between humans is ‘manipulation’. Al H
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Good point. The problem is that organizations like NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN all claim to be impartial and unbiased! That’s a bare faced lie, and they know it. When NPR begs for money they claim they’re unbiased, but of 80 upper management surveyed a couple of years ago, there were 80 Democrats. No typo – zero Republicans. National Progressive Radio is chronically liberal.
Ar least Fox admits it has a conservative viewpoint.
You mean conservative bias to the point they were sued for 3/4 of a billion dollars…..they aren’t biased…they openly lie. And nutters who are unable to reason fact from lies (like you) suck it all down like overly sweet Kool-Aid.
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Oh no – it is people like NBC who outright lie. You know, like when Dateline alleged that Chevrolet trucks spontaneously exploded when T-Boned – but didn’t mention that they’d attached fireworks to the gas tank.
Or when they fraudulently edited the George Zimmerman 911 call to make him look like a racist when he said “He’s black” in response to the operators question, which they cut.
There’s another outrageous example of NBC lying hat I can’t recall right now – but it’s clear that they lie, lie, lie.
Like you, “Professor”. Like you.
It was Fox that paid 3/4 of a Biillion for lying. Not any of the stations you seem to not like. Just saying.
But you be you.
what does this have to do with measles
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* Is this a question (?)
That was an actual question in an Oxford University Philosophy examination.
austin, wut was the answer
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There was no definitive answer, Markl. This was not a question in a Maths exam.
It was an attempt to provoke reasoning in the student’s mind, and to have him elucidate.
The best answer was this : If that is a question, this is an answer.
Concise too.
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the real question is how many points was the answer worth in the quiz
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It doesn’t work like that at Oxford.
Nothing, Al and many like him enjoy calling out when people that are bigoted towards do bad things as if they justifies their bigotry. They will claim this ins’t true but trust me….it is. It is painfully obvious.
as the captain of the obvious im going to have to disagree with you there
captain, it would b fun 2 get together – monikers optional
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You just can’t win over anyone to your sad sack prejudices, can you “Professor” ..?
Nobody buys your crap.
A number of commentors have jumped on the Al and Austin make racist comments. So many that you nutters had to make up a conspiracy theory that I post under different names.
But whatever makes you sleep at night.
i buy crap from grass eaters, dry it & burn it to heat my mud hut every winter. smells good
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Professor” is the most bigoted and prejudiced person here. He falls over himself in his eagerness to crucify conservatives and claim moral superiority. But in truth, it is HIS prejudice and hate that appear in every comment he makes.
We’ve all noticed how the debate degenerates once he weighs in – because he’s so abusive and insulting. And then he accuses US of being hateful or prejudiced !!
Psychologists call this projection. He’s a perfect example of it.
Who am I bigoted against Al? Conservatives? Generally, my distaste for conservatives would be considered political disagreement, not bigotry. Bigotry is defined as unreasonable, stubborn intolerance toward those with different beliefs based on prejudice. Bigotry involves hostility towards groups based on immutable traits like race or religion, or deep-seated prejudice.
So nope, I don’t see myself as a bigot in the same was you and Austin are bigoted (and racist) towards people of color, different religions, and people with different sexual orientation.
But you be you.
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Well you wouldn’t see yourself as a bigot, would you?
You can’t even acknowledge YOUR OWN intolerance, prejudice, and bigotry.
Not to mention your rudeness in these columns, your verbal abuse, your insults, and your spitefulness.
YOU are the [deleted] in these comment columns – every time. Nobody can stand you because you are such a toxic obnoxious personality.
So make your case that I am bigot. I will prove you wrong but go ahead and try. I am happy to defend my labeling of you and Austin as bigots and racists. You know the shoe fits so just wear it and own it. You and Austin literally argue in belief of the actual definition of racism as your personal belief. So not a hard argument to make.
But you be you.
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You make my case for me, with every abusive comment you make.
Your lack of self-awareness must be part of your mental problems – which you have admitted.
Got it, you can’t make the case that I am a bigot, so you toss out some hollow comment and insult. Typical
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Don’t you love it when “Professor” agrees with himself that he’s right? “Got it” he declares, smugly, as he agrees with his own assertions.
He also likes to laugh at his own jokes as he’s always “LOL”ing and “LMAO”ing at his own questionable witticisms.
What a wanker.
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“The Professor” – as he now calls himself – drips with prejudice and bigotry with every comment he makes. He only comments here in a never ending attempt to prove his prejudices against conservatives.
He’s like the former smoker who suddenly can’t abide being within 20 feet of a cigarette, and he possesses that same strange fervour to condemn those of which he once was one.
[ He used to vote for the GOP ]
maybe wendy is an immigrant
Professor your own definition of what a bigot is is exactly how you talk about President Trump isn’t it.
No Will. Not liking an individual doesn’t not come anywhere close to bigotry. Really daft to think that if I am honest. Really daft.
But you be you.
Tell me Chris is there anything President Trump has done that you agree with