The Revere Board of Health held its regular monthly meeting last Wednesday evening, July 25, in the City Council Chambers. On hand for the session were chair Dr. Drew Bunker, members Kathleen Savage and Viviana Catano, Director of Public Health Lauren Buck, Health Agent/Director of Inspectional Services, Michael Wells, and Board of Health Clerk Paula Sepulveda.

The session was a brief (20 minutes) one. Buck presented the Communicable Disease monthly report. She noted that the city has an overall low incidence of disease, though the COVID-19 figures remained high with 87 confirmed cases in the city in July, a figure that does not take into account the unreported cases.

“Massachusetts is seeing a spike in COVID and upper-respiratory diseases,” Buck said.

She also noted that the Mass. Dept. of Public Health confirmed that a Worcester-area resident who had returned from overseas travel was confirmed with measles in July, the first such incidence in Mass. since 2020. Buck suggested that individuals who do not know their measles vaccine status should consider getting at least an initial dose of the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.