{"id":8761,"date":"2025-02-18T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:13:21","slug":"texas-measles-cases-are-up-and-new-mexico-now-has-an-outbreak-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/18\/texas-measles-cases-are-up-and-new-mexico-now-has-an-outbreak-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas measles cases are up, and New Mexico now has an outbreak. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-mmr-vaccine-homeschooling-b29d08d53cf26704968e8c00dfa712ba\">measles outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Mexico health department spokesman Robert Nott said Tuesday that the agency hadn\u2019t \u201cidentified any direct contact\u201d between cases in its state and cases in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious disease. Here\u2019s what you should know about how to protect yourself against measles, as well as what\u2019s happening in Texas and New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/measles-texas-new-mexico-mmr-outbreak-vaccines-408371700e3ab548777bf0354e586549\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP The&nbsp;measles outbreak&nbsp;in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighboring eastern New Mexico also have been diagnosed with measles. New Mexico health department spokesman Robert Nott said Tuesday that the agency hadn\u2019t \u201cidentified any direct contact\u201d between cases in its state and cases in Texas. Measles [&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-8761","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\/8761","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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}