{"id":6047,"date":"2024-03-12T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:18:52","slug":"4-things-you-should-know-about-measles-amid-an-uptick-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/12\/4-things-you-should-know-about-measles-amid-an-uptick-in-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"4 things you should know about measles amid an uptick in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/4526753-4-things-you-should-know-about-measles-amid-an-uptick-in-cases\/\">The Hill<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. is seeing a rash of measles cases, with more than three dozen cases reported across 17 states already this year, according to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. This comes two months after the agency&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4432414-measles-outbreaks-unvaccinated\/\" target=\"_blank\">warned clinicians to remain alert for measles cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year, 45 cases have been reported in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CDC data shows<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the most notable cases are those reported in Chicago, where the CDC said it\u2019s \u201csending a team of experts to support the local response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Monday, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has confirmed five measles cases in the city, with four at a migrant shelter in the Pilsen neighborhood. The two most recent cases were confirmed in adults at the shelter who are in stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf a measles outbreak continues for a year or more, the United States could lose its measles elimination status,\u201d the agency notes on its website.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"tTq fiX U\">tTq fiX U<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill The U.S. is seeing a rash of measles cases, with more than three dozen cases reported across 17 states already this year, according to the&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This comes two months after the agency&nbsp;warned clinicians to remain alert for measles cases. So far this year, 45 cases have been reported [&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-6047","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\/6047","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=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}