Measles Outbreak at Google's Mountain View, California Campus, Gets Adam Schiff's Attention
How about those H1B visa workers, eh, Google?
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Google issues MEASLES warning to staff after infected worker visited tech giant's Silicon Valley campus amid nationwide disease outbreak
Google employee from San Mateo County visited company's offices at 1295 Charleston Road in Mountain View on April 4 while sick with measles
Staff doctor sent email to workers in the building warning them about exposure on April 13
Health officials in Santa Clara County, where Mountain View is located, confirmed the case this week
County has four unrelated measles cases, but vaccination rates there are at nearly 97 per cent
Health officials in California have confirmed that an employee at Google visited the tech giant's campus in Silicon Valley while suffering from measles.
The patient, described only as an adult resident of San Mateo County, entered the Google offices at 1295 Charleston Road in Mountain View on April 4.
Marianna Moles, a spokesperson for the Santa Clara County Public Health, said at a press conference Wednesday there was no additional risk to the public from the Google exposure.
Buzzfeed has obtained an email sent on April 13 by an on-staff doctor at Google to employees in the building on Charleston Road warning them about the measles exposure as a precaution. It unclear how many people work in the building.
The offices are located a half-mile away from the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc, known as Googleplex.
The company physician also reached out to the county health officials to report the case.
The April 4 incident at Google is not related to four recent cases of measles reported in Santa Clara County, where measles vaccination rates are at nearly 97 per cent, reported ABC 7 News.
Meanwhile, health officials in San Mateo County, where the unnamed worker lives, are trying to track the patient’s movements while infected to find out who else might have been exposed.
reported that Congressman Adam Schiff in February sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, urging the company to crack down on anti-vaxxers spreading inaccurate information about potential side effects and risks associated with the measles vaccine.
'I am writing out of my concern that YouTube [owned by Google] is surfacing and recommending messages that discourage parents from vaccinating their children, a direct threat to public health, and reversing progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases,' the California Democrat wrote.