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Public health officials in a North Dakota community ordered nearly 200 unvaccinated schoolchildren to quarantine for 21 days because of measles.
“About 180 Williston-area students are isolating at home after three schools were notified by public health officials of measles exposure on their campuses,” North Dakota Monitor reports.
North Dakota has reported nine measles cases this year, and a recent outbreak in the northwest part of the state has led local health officials to enforce a law that requires unvaccinated students to quarantine for 21 days after exposure. https://t.co/7PllsCFyUc
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North Dakota Monitor reports:
Unvaccinated students at Missouri Ridge Elementary, Williston Middle School and Williston High School were told they need to isolate for 21 days to ensure they were not infected, said Paula Lankford, spokesperson for Williston Basin School District 7. The precaution is to prevent students from unknowingly spreading the virus to others.
Health officials on Tuesday confirmed nine cases of measles in Williams County in northwest North Dakota. Daphne Clark, spokesperson for the Upper Missouri District Health Unit, said the measles cases are considered part of an outbreak because health officials believe community spread is occurring without direct contact with known carriers of the illness.
Four people diagnosed with measles were in Williston schools while infectious, the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services said.
The entire campuses of the affected schools were considered exposed, Lankford said.
The quarantine requirement affects some unvaccinated fourth grade students who were touring Williston Middle School on the day of the exposure, Lankford said. It also affects a few other students who don’t attend the affected schools but shared a bus ride with an exposed student, she said.
“Each of the schools is going to work with those families that are excluded to ensure that they have educational opportunities for their kids and connections with teachers through digital means,” Lankford said.
The Williston school district has a total enrollment of about 5,300 students.
Public health officials want to isolate healthy children for weeks.
They have obviously learned nothing from the 2020 COVID debacle.
However, that’s not a surprise.
Quarantine healthy kids? Are you kidding – did we learn nothing from COVID-19? https://t.co/OxkPDs71NJ
— dredgmd (@egeehr) May 10, 2025
Per CNN:
On Tuesday, families of 188 unvaccinated students in the Williston Basin School District No. 7 received a letter informing them that their children would need to quarantine for three weeks.
About two weeks earlier, district nurse coordinator Lynn Douglas had sent a letter to all families in anticipation of an outbreak, preemptively outlining the quarantine procedure and highlighting the importance of prevention, including vaccination.
“Williston Basin School District #7 plays a very important role in the health and well-being of our students,” Douglas said in an email to CNN. “Having vaccine-preventable diseases circulating within a school would lead to large numbers of school absences and adversely affect the health of our students.”
“While even a small drop in immunization rates can lead to outbreaks, unvaccinated students are at significant risk of serious illness and complications from measles, which are highly contagious and preventable diseases,” she said. “WBSD #7 prioritizes student safety by taking measures to protect unvaccinated students and prevent the spread of illness to themselves, their families, and others and in order to do this, students must be excluded.”
There have been at least 1,018 measles cases reported in the US in 2025, according to a CNN tally using data from state health departments and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC publishes data on measles cases each Friday, but it has stopped providing details on the specific number of cases in each state, and its national total does not always capture the latest updates from states.