{"id":10628,"date":"2025-10-22T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:03:55","slug":"western-australia-measles-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/western-australia-measles-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia Measles Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.wa.gov.au\/news\/2025\/measles-alert?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">WA Dept of Health<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been<strong>&nbsp;51<\/strong>&nbsp;cases of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywa.wa.gov.au\/Articles\/J_M\/Measles\">measles<\/a>&nbsp;identified in WA in 2025 year to date, of which&nbsp;<strong>11<\/strong>&nbsp;have been&nbsp;identified&nbsp;in the current Pilbara community outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.wa.gov.au\/~\/media\/Corp\/Images\/News\/2023\/Health-Alert.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.health.wa.gov.au\/~\/media\/Corp\/Images\/News\/2023\/Health-Alert.png\" alt=\"Health Alert\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles typically develops around 10 days after being exposed to the virus, but this can vary from 7 to 18 days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is highly infectious and can spread via airborne droplets to people close by (e.g. in waiting rooms). Droplets in the air may still infect people entering a room up to 30 minutes after an infected person has left it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If someone not already immune to measles visited an exposure location during the specified dates and times below, they are advised to monitor for symptoms between 7 to 18 days after the visit. Persons who have received two measles vaccinations and those born before 1966 are considered immune to measles, on rare occasions, vaccinated individuals may develop a mild illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no ongoing risk of measles at these locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"u afh\">u afh<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA Dept of Health There have been&nbsp;51&nbsp;cases of&nbsp;measles&nbsp;identified in WA in 2025 year to date, of which&nbsp;11&nbsp;have been&nbsp;identified&nbsp;in the current Pilbara community outbreak. Measles typically develops around 10 days after being exposed to the virus, but this can vary from 7 to 18 days.&nbsp; Measles is highly infectious and can spread via airborne droplets to [&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-10628","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\/10628","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=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11467,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}