DAVIS COUNTY, Iowa (KCCI) – A measles outbreak in southern Iowa has the Davis Community School District taking preventative measures.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed at least 12 new cases. There’s evidence the virus has spread from person to person.
On Tuesday the school district deployed what’s called their “Mustang Mobile Micro-grid.” It’s essentially a mobile generator that uses solar power. The Microgrid helped power a mobile hospital in the community.
The goal was to vaccinate as many as 280 people against the measles. Vaccinations are available to the public and the Amish Community, an effort the district says it felt strongly in supporting.
Danny Roberts with the school district spoke more of the initiative.
Roberts said, That’s one of the reasons we got the trailer, and as we talked about in the grant, it would be readily available. So again, our staff is going to deploy it. It will operate up to eight hours.”
The grant district officials referred to helped pay for 95% of the micro-grid.
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