{"id":8853,"date":"2025-03-04T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2025-03-04T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:08:21","slug":"new-york-city-officials-report-second-measles-case-as-texas-outbreak-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/04\/new-york-city-officials-report-second-measles-case-as-texas-outbreak-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City officials report second measles case as Texas outbreak continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/03\/03\/measles-new-york-city\/81204974007\/\">USA Today<\/a> As the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2025\/02\/19\/measles-outbreak-texas-vaccine-symptoms\/78974605007\/\">measles<\/a>&nbsp;outbreak continues to spread in Texas, cases have been reported in New Jersey as well as a second case in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/health\/health-topics\/measles.page\">New York City Department of Health<\/a>&nbsp;said that one additional case of measles has been reported in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a pediatrician and the State&#8217;s doctor, I want to remind everyone that immunization is safe and the best protection for your children against measles and other potentially deadly diseases,&#8221; State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-02-27_measles.htm\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first case was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/press\/releases\/2025\/2025-02-27_measles.htm\">reported in New York City earlier this year<\/a>, but acting commissioner of the New York City Health Department Dr. Michelle Morse told USA TODAY in a statement that the two reported cases are unrelated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/03\/03\/measles-new-york-city\/81204974007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today As the&nbsp;measles&nbsp;outbreak continues to spread in Texas, cases have been reported in New Jersey as well as a second case in New York City. The&nbsp;New York City Department of Health&nbsp;said that one additional case of measles has been reported in New York City. &#8220;As a pediatrician and the State&#8217;s doctor, I want to [&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-8853","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\/8853","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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}