{"id":6166,"date":"2024-03-26T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:12:15","slug":"florida-reports-11th-measles-case-of-2024-this-time-linked-to-international-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/26\/florida-reports-11th-measles-case-of-2024-this-time-linked-to-international-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida reports 11th measles case of 2024, this time linked to international travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2024\/03\/25\/florida-reports-11th-measles-case-of-2024-this-time-linked-to-international-travel\/\">Orlando Sentinal<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida reported another measles case on Friday, bringing the state\u2019s total to 11 cases this year amid a worldwide uptick in a highly infectious disease once thought to be eliminated in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was identified in South Florida\u2019s Martin County, in an individual age 55-59. It was linked to travel outside of the country, according to data from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhealthcharts.gov\/ChartsReports\/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=FrequencyMerlin.Frequency&amp;FirstTime=True\">state health department\u2019s web-based reportable disease surveillance system.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA travel-related case of a communicable disease is not abnormal and should be distinguished with appropriate context. \u2026 We recommend that the Orlando Sentinel stops attempting to be armchair epidemiologists,\u201d Grant Kemp, Florida Department of Health spokesman, said in an emailed response to questions about the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2024\/03\/25\/florida-reports-11th-measles-case-of-2024-this-time-linked-to-international-travel\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"pVoP  VF   gtKlSP \">pVoP  VF   gtKlSP <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Sentinal Florida reported another measles case on Friday, bringing the state\u2019s total to 11 cases this year amid a worldwide uptick in a highly infectious disease once thought to be eliminated in the U.S. The case was identified in South Florida\u2019s Martin County, in an individual age 55-59. It was linked to travel outside [&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-6166","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\/6166","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=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}