The HSE says health workers in the MidWest are on high alert as Europe grapples with a record high number of measles cases.
The World Health Organisation has warned that there are 41,000 active cases of the disease across the continent, with France, Italy and Greece the worst hit.
76 cases have been diagnosed in Ireland so far this year, three times that of last year, and 30 of those were in the MidWest alone.
The outbreak here has been attributed to one case, where a person attended University Hospital Limerick with measles symptoms after visiting the continent.
HSE MidWest’s Specialist in Public Health, Dr Rose Fitzgerald has been telling Clare FM’s James Mulhall that while there are currently no known cases here at the moment, they’re constantly testing:
