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Salt Lake County health officials have confirmed a new case of measles that can be traced to a South Jordan child care facility.
The child care facility called Bingham Kopper Kids sits inside Bingham High School and offers high schoolers interested in child development and early childhood education classroom experience caring for kids between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years.
It’s unclear how old the infected person is, though Salt Lake County Health Department officials confirmed the patient is unvaccinated.
Children typically aren’t eligible to receive their first dose of the measles, mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine until about 12 months old. A facility manager and about two to four adult aides accompany the high school students as they care for the young children, according to the facility’s website.
The source of the infection isn’t known, according to county health officials. The infected person was at the child care facility from Monday through Friday last week.
(Google Maps) Bingham High School, where child care facility Bingham Kopper Kids is located in South Jordan, as seen in this June 2025 Google Maps image.
The county health department in cooperation with Bingham High School and the Jordan School District has notified every unvaccinated person known to have had direct contact with the infected person, officials said. Everyone in the school’s community has also been informed of possible exposure.
This is the third confirmed Salt Lake County measles case in 2025. There have been 115 cases statewide so far this year, with 20 in the last three weeks, according to the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. All but seven cases statewide were reported among unvaccinated people.
Measles is “exceptionally” contagious, county health officials advied. It travels in the air and can linger even after an infected person leaves.
County health officials stress that the best protection against measles is vaccination. Two doses of the MMR vaccine, typically administered during childhood, can prevent more than 97% of measles infections; those who are vaccinated see milder symptoms if they do get sick and are less likely to spread the virus.
Anyone who is unvaccinated faces a much higher risk of infection and should quarantine if exposed to see if they develop the illness, the department said. People who are infected can spread measles before they show symptoms.