{"id":11773,"date":"2026-04-01T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:10:31","slug":"utah-measles-outbreak-brings-its-biggest-surge-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/utah-measles-outbreak-brings-its-biggest-surge-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah measles outbreak brings its biggest surge yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/04\/01\/utah-measles-outbreak-biggest-surge-yet\">Axios<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Utah health officials\u00a0have confirmed 142\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/03\/17\/utah-measles-response-criticism\">new measles cases<\/a>\u00a0since March 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>&nbsp;The rolling, three-week&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epi.utah.gov\/measles-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"case count, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">case count<\/a>&nbsp;reflects a surge of more than 30% compared to last week&#8217;s tally, and shows the biggest increase in cases since the state&#8217;s outbreak&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2025\/06\/25\/measles-utah-outbreak-unvaccinated-waivers\">began last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Between the lines:&nbsp;<\/strong>Measles&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2025\/06\/26\/measles-symptoms-vaccines-utah\">symptoms<\/a>&nbsp;typically appear one to three weeks after exposure to the highly-contagious disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That delay means a case spike often doesn&#8217;t appear within the week the new infections occur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Threat level:\u00a0<\/strong>It also means people who had contact with those new patients may be infected but not yet know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/salt-lake-city\/2026\/04\/01\/utah-measles-outbreak-biggest-surge-yet\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios Utah health officials\u00a0have confirmed 142\u00a0new measles cases\u00a0since March 10. Why it matters:&nbsp;The rolling, three-week&nbsp;case count&nbsp;reflects a surge of more than 30% compared to last week&#8217;s tally, and shows the biggest increase in cases since the state&#8217;s outbreak&nbsp;began last summer. Between the lines:&nbsp;Measles&nbsp;symptoms&nbsp;typically appear one to three weeks after exposure to the highly-contagious disease. Threat [&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-11773","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\/11773","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=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11774,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}