{"id":11411,"date":"2026-02-11T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:30:53","slug":"dc-health-officials-warn-of-measles-exposures-across-city-including-march-for-life-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/02\/11\/dc-health-officials-warn-of-measles-exposures-across-city-including-march-for-life-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"DC health officials warn of measles exposures across city, including March for Life rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Health\/dc-health-officials-warn-measles-exposures-city-including\/story?id=129988276\">ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials in Washington, D.C., are warning that people may have been exposed to measles in locations across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC Health said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dchealth.dc.gov\/release\/health-officials-investigating-measles-exposures-dc-residents\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"statement, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;that it &#8220;was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those locations is the annual National March for Life rally, which took place on the National Mall on Jan. 23 and had several high-profile speakers, including Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Other locations include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children&#8217;s National Medical Center emergency department on Feb. 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Jan. 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catholic University of America on Jan. 24 and Jan. 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 26,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington Metro transit lines on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Station on Jan. 27<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"u Of  W  \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Health officials in Washington, D.C., are warning that people may have been exposed to measles in locations across the city. DC Health said in a&nbsp;statement&nbsp;that it &#8220;was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious.&#8221; Among those locations is the annual National March for [&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-11411","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\/11411","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=11411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}