State health officials estimate that the response to the measles in outbreak in Kansas will cost taxpayers at least $2.6 million.
Dereck Totten, the state’s chief medical officer, provided the estimate Tuesday when giving lawmakers a briefing on the measles outbreak in Kansas.
The state health department based its estimate on a review of the costs of measles outbreaks in the United States collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2001 to 2018.
The review estimated the median cost per measles case at $32,805 and the median cost per contact at $223.
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