{"id":10621,"date":"2025-10-22T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10621"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:00:20","slug":"unvaccinated-traveler-sparks-sea-tac-measles-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/unvaccinated-traveler-sparks-sea-tac-measles-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Unvaccinated traveler sparks Sea-Tac measles alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/seattle\/2025\/10\/22\/unvaccinated-traveler-sparks-sea-tac-measles-alert\">Axios Seattle<\/a> <strong>A measles case&nbsp;<\/strong>tied to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the latest sign of the virus&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/07\/measles-cases-high-eliminated-us\">national resurgence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>&nbsp;Health officials warn that measles \u2014 once declared eliminated in the U.S. \u2014 is making a comeback, fueled by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/seattle\/2024\/08\/08\/school-vaccines-seattle-king-county\">declining vaccination rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong>&nbsp;A visitor from Arizona, unvaccinated and traveling from an outbreak area, passed through Sea-Tac on Oct. 13 before being diagnosed,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthinsider.com\/2025\/10\/17\/measles-case-in-visitor-to-king-county-possible-exposures-at-seattle-tacoma-international-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"according to Public Health - Seattle &amp; King County, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Public Health &#8211; Seattle &amp; King County<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Officials are urging anyone potentially exposed to check their immunity status.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/en\/dept\/dph\/health-safety\/disease-illness\/measles#toc-Locations-of-potential-exposures\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Check here, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Check here<\/a>\u00a0to find specific information about potential areas of exposure within the airport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State of play:<\/strong>&nbsp;King County has seen four travel-related cases this year; Washington has reported 11 others, local health officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. has logged nearly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/redbook\/resources\/15187\/Red-Book-Online-Outbreaks-Measles?autologincheck=redirected\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"1,600 measles cases in 2025, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,600 measles cases in 2025<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 five times last year&#8217;s total, per health officials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios Seattle A measles case&nbsp;tied to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the latest sign of the virus&#8217;s&nbsp;national resurgence. Why it matters:&nbsp;Health officials warn that measles \u2014 once declared eliminated in the U.S. \u2014 is making a comeback, fueled by&nbsp;declining vaccination rates. Driving the news:&nbsp;A visitor from Arizona, unvaccinated and traveling from an outbreak area, passed through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10622,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10621\/revisions\/10622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}