Health Department: Tourist with measles stayed at a hotel on Atlantic Ave
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced last week that a tourist from Australia was confirmed to have measles as he visited New York making stops in Putnam County, Orange County, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
DOH confirmed that the tourist, who was part of an Oasis Bible Tour Group at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and visiting New York between Feb. 16 and 21 spent the night of Feb. 19 at the Best Western Hotel at 1324 Atlantic Ave.
On Feb. 21, he visited Excel Urgent Care in Goshen, New York, before being sent to the Orange Regional Medical Center emergency department in Middletown later that afternoon.