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4th measles case of 2025 Denver adult identified with disease in April BY JOHN DALEY CPR NEWS
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soaked hands in orange Gojo at the end of the day before hugging her burbling toddler. And according to RAQC, no more emitting up to 165 pounds of carbon dioxide — the equivalent of burning 83 pounds of coal — in one shift. That’s worth another hug from the toddler. “So knowing that we’re making the world a little bit better for him, and that he’s just growing up in a safer place, is so nice,” Dantzler said.
Denver has a second case of measles. It’s the fourth recorded in the state this year and a number not seen in Colorado since at least 2014. It comes as the number of measles cases in the U.S. is rising sharply. The new case is in an adult — a household contact of the first Denver case identified earlier this month. The health departments of the city and the state say there’s no risk of exposure to the general public because the person has been in public health quarantine during their infectious period. Measles can be severe but is preventable. Two doses of the MMR vaccine are about 97 percent effective in preventing measles, according to a press release Wednesday from the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment. “The MMR vaccine is safe and highly effective, providing long-lasting protection,” the release said. This latest case comes as numbers in Colorado climb, mirroring a national spike. The latest case is now the fourth confirmed in Colorado in just the last three weeks. Four cases are double the most for the state recorded in a single year; two cases were reported in 2016, according to the state health department’s website. In no other year in the last decade has the state recorded more than 2 cases. For six of those years, there were zero cases. Colorado recorded its first case of 2025 in an adult in Pueblo County on March 31. A second case was confirmed in Denver in an infant about a week later. Both were unvaccinated. The third case was in Archuleta County, in south-central Colorado, in an adult with an unknown vaccination history. In the fourth case, the Denver health department could not verify proof of vaccination for the person;
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Things you will hear and smell at Hallie Dantzler’s coffee truck: A Hal’s Coffee barista offering you a vanilla shot with your latte. Locally roasted coffee beans wafting your way on the steam emanating from the espresso machine. Things you will not hear and smell: Bellowing gasoline generators or acrid petroleum fumes. Dantzler dumped two loud, odiferous
gasoline generators and adopted $19,000 in clean-running battery packs to run Hal’s Coffee trailer, with the help of an 80% grant from the Regional Air Quality Council. Dantzler, who pulls the Hal’s Coffee trailer around Fort Collins and the northern Front Range behind an electric Ford F-150 Lightning, runs down a longer menu of perks she attributes to the battery switchover. No more spending hundreds of dollars a day at the gas station filling up generators and fuel canisters. No longer having to scrub her gasoline-
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