{"id":9670,"date":"2025-06-11T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:47:09","slug":"arizona-officials-confirm-measles-outbreak-in-navajo-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/11\/arizona-officials-confirm-measles-outbreak-in-navajo-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona officials confirm measles outbreak in Navajo County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AP<\/a> Health officials in Arizona say there are four linked measles cases in Navajo County, marking the state\u2019s first outbreak this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. logged 122 more cases of measles<\/a> last week \u2014 but only four of them in Texas \u2014 while the outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Michigan officially ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 1,168 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health officials in Texas, where the nation\u2019s biggest outbreak<\/a> raged during the late winter and spring, said they\u2019ll now post case counts only once a week \u2014 yet another sign the outbreak is slowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three other major outbreaks<\/a> in North America. The longest, in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 2,009 cases<\/a> from mid-October through June 3. The province logged its first death Thursday in a baby that got congenital measles but also had other preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AP Health officials in Arizona say there are four linked measles cases in Navajo County, marking the state\u2019s first outbreak this year. The U.S. logged 122 more cases of measles last week \u2014 but only four of them in Texas \u2014 while the outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Michigan officially ended. There were 1,168 confirmed measles cases in […]<\/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-9670","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\/9670","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=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9671,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/9671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}