According to the Public Health Agency's statistics, these are the first confirmed cases in the county since 2018.
The healthcare system will contact people who may have been in contact with the infected, according to a press release.
A case of measles has also been confirmed in Stockholm, which Karolinska University Hospital confirms for Dagens Nyheter. It concerns a patient who was on the pediatric ward and is being cared for at the hospital. The patient is said to have been infected abroad, and contact tracing is ongoing.
Measles was previously a classic childhood disease in Sweden, but it has been rare since vaccinations began in the 1970s and the measles vaccine was introduced in the general vaccination program in 1982.
In principle, all those born before 1960 have had the disease and therefore have lifelong protection against being infected again.
The symptoms are high fever, dry cough, irritated eyes, and rash. Complications such as pneumonia are common, and one in 1,000 gets a serious brain inflammation.
