Virginia and Wisconsin report measles cases among refugees - ABC News

Officials in Virginia and Wisconsin say that six people who recently traveled to the U.S.

-- Six people who recently traveled to the United States after fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan have been diagnosed with measles, officials said Tuesday.

The cases in Virginia and Wisconsin are being reported four days after the U.S.

The Virginia Department of Health initially said Friday that three people who arrived from Afghanistan had been diagnosed with the measles in northern Virginia.

Health officials said they were working to notify people potentially exposed at an unidentified Richmond hospital as well as Fort Pickett, an Army National Guard base southwest of Richmond that is providing temporary housing to recently arrived evacuees.

The measles cases in Virginia and Wisconsin have been reported in the wake of the U.S.

Psaki said Friday that the halt stemmed from the discovery of measles among four Afghans who had arrived in the United States.