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Salt Lake County reports its first confirmed measles case amid a national outbreak.

The unvaccinated patient visited the Taylorsville InstaCare on Nov. 7 while infectious.

Measles cases in Utah have reached 77 this year, mostly in southwest Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake County Health Department on Friday confirmed a measles infection in an adult resident — the first lab-confirmed case identified in the county amid a current nationwide outbreak of the disease.

The infected individual is unvaccinated, the department said.

"This case is especially concerning because the source of the patient's infection is unknown," Dorothy Adams, executive director of the department, said in a statement. "They have not knowingly had contact with an

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