Measles is spreading fast among workers at Kansai International Airport, with 32 airport workers in their 20s and 30s found to have contracted the viral disease since mid-August, officials said.

In addition to the 32, three other medical workers who dealt with measles patients 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.