Dozens quarantined in California after measles exposure

The US has recorded the highest number of measles cases this year since the disease was declared eradicated at the turn of the century. [AFP]

Dozens of people at two California universities have been quarantined as US health officials battle to stop the spread of a nationwide measles outbreak, authorities said Thursday.

The Department of Public Health said hundreds of students and staff at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California State University (Cal State) had been exposed to a measles carrier earlier this month.