Japan: 32 Kansai airport workers contract measles

Measles is spreading fast among workers at Kansai International Airport, with 32 men and women in their 20s and 30s found to have contracted the viral disease since mid-August, officials said. The 32 include three doctors who treated measles patients at the airport. The doctors were confirmed Sunday to have been infected. Kansai Airports, the company that operates the major airport in the southern part of Osaka Prefecture, said Monday that 25 of those who contracted the disease are recovering. Nonetheless, the operator is stepping up vigilance as measles is highly contagious and some of the workers are believed not to be vaccinated against it.<br/>