{"id":9042,"date":"2025-03-25T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:27:42","slug":"dc-health-officials-confirm-measles-case-in-the-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/25\/dc-health-officials-confirm-measles-case-in-the-district\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Health officials confirm measles case in the District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2025\/03\/dc-health-officials-confirmed-measles-case-in-the-district\/\">WTOP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The D.C. Department of Health confirmed Tuesday a positive case of measles in a person who visited various locations in the District while contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unidentified person traveled throughout the nation\u2019s capital within the last week. Anyone not immune to measles who traveled to the potential exposure sites during the noted dates and times are urged to contact their health care provider or D.C. Health at 844-493-2652 for guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D.C. Health\u2019s alert comes weeks after health officials in Maryland confirmed three measles cases across\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2025\/03\/measles-case-confirmed-in-howard-co-resident-who-passed-through-dulles\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Howard, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Howard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/health-fitness\/2025\/03\/2-more-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Prince George\u2019s, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prince George\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0counties. All three cases had been contracted by residents who had traveled abroad, and were not related to the outbreaks in New Mexico, Texas or Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2025\/03\/dc-health-officials-confirmed-measles-case-in-the-district\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTOP The D.C. Department of Health confirmed Tuesday a positive case of measles in a person who visited various locations in the District while contagious. The unidentified person traveled throughout the nation\u2019s capital within the last week. Anyone not immune to measles who traveled to the potential exposure sites during the noted dates and times [&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-9042","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\/9042","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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9043,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}