HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) is monitoring a positive wastewater sample for measles virus, the first wastewater detection of the virus for Kauai County.

The sample was collected Sept. 24, 2025, at a site in East Kauai County and DOH was notified of the result on Oct. 20, 2025.

No suspected measles cases have been identified on Kauai.

Each week, municipal wastewater samples from across Hawaii are sent to the University of Missouri for deep sequencing to identify bacterial and viral genetic material associated with community infections.

Recently, sequencing data revealed the presence of the measles virus genotype D8 sequence in a sample collected from Kauai County on Sept. 24, 2025. Genotype D is found in wild measles virus; measles vaccines use genoty

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