{"id":6413,"date":"2024-04-24T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:35:48","slug":"first-measles-case-confirmed-in-west-virginia-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/24\/first-measles-case-confirmed-in-west-virginia-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"First measles case confirmed in West Virginia since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\/news\/monongalia\/case-of-measles-confirmed-in-monongalia-county-west-virginia\/\">WV News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A patient of WVU Medicine in Monongalia County has tested positive for measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wvumedicine.org\/news-feed\/news-article\/?cat=WVU-Medicine&amp;sec=Press-Releases&amp;headline=patient-tests-positive-for-measles\" target=\"_blank\">WVU Medicine announced<\/a>&nbsp;Monday that a patient tested positive after visiting an outpatient clinic last week and is recovering at their home. The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\/news\/health\/ap-us-measles-cases-are-up-in-2024-whats-driving-the-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. has seen an uptick in measles cases in 2024<\/a>, but this is the first case confirmed in West Virginia since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The patient presented with symptoms at a clinic on Thursday, and a test confirmed the case on Sunday, the Monongalia County Health Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wboy.com\/news\/monongalia\/case-of-measles-confirmed-in-monongalia-county-west-virginia\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WV News A patient of WVU Medicine in Monongalia County has tested positive for measles. WVU Medicine announced&nbsp;Monday that a patient tested positive after visiting an outpatient clinic last week and is recovering at their home. The&nbsp;U.S. has seen an uptick in measles cases in 2024, but this is the first case confirmed in West [&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-6413","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\/6413","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=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}