{"id":5927,"date":"2024-02-20T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:59:06","slug":"six-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-outbreak-at-a-florida-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/20\/six-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-outbreak-at-a-florida-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Six cases of measles confirmed in outbreak at a Florida elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-outbreak-florida-elementary-school-rcna139637\">NBC<\/a> The state Department of Health in Broward County announced Friday that a third grader had been diagnosed, and five more cases have been confirmed since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six people have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak at the Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida Department of Health in Broward County announced in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/FLDOH\/bulletins\/38aed3e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notice<\/a>&nbsp;to local health care providers on Friday that a third grader with no history of travel had been diagnosed. Three other measles cases at the elementary school were confirmed on Saturday, followed by one on Monday and the latest on Tuesday. The ages or grades<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>of those other patients have not been released.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county health department<a href=\"https:\/\/broward.floridahealth.gov\/_files\/_documents\/news-releases\/_documents\/Broward-measles-health-advisory-2-18-2024.pdf#DOH-BROWARD%20ISSUES%20MEASLES%20HEALTH%20ADVISORY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0issued an advisory<\/a>\u00a0Sunday saying that it was \u201cworking with all partners, including Broward County Public Schools and local hospitals, to identify contacts that are at risk of transmission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-outbreak-florida-elementary-school-rcna139637\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Q WglhiN WwzP EnliSWYP\">Q WglhiN WwzP EnliSWYP<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC The state Department of Health in Broward County announced Friday that a third grader had been diagnosed, and five more cases have been confirmed since. Six people have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak at the Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, Florida. The Florida Department of Health in Broward County announced in [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/5927","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=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}