{"id":215515,"date":"2025-12-29T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:46:13","slug":"n-j-health-officials-warn-of-potential-measles-exposures-at-newark-liberty-airport-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215515\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. health officials warn of potential measles exposures at Newark Liberty Airport. Here&#8217;s what we know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey state health officials are warning of potential\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/diseases\/communicable\/measles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">measles<\/a>\u00a0exposures at Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Health says a passenger, who doesn&#8217;t live in the Garden State, traveled through at least two of the airport&#8217;s terminals on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who was in Terminal B or Terminal C between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on that day may have been exposed to the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health said it is working with local health officials on contact tracing and to notify people who might have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Any updates will be posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/health\/measles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NJDOH website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In August, state health officials warned a person infected with measles\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/newark-liberty-international-airport-measles-exposure\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spent hours at Newark Airport<\/a>\u00a0over two days and urged anyone who believed they were exposed to seek treatment.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Measles symptoms<\/p>\n<p>Measles becomes airborne and spreads when a sick person coughs or sneezes. The virus can remain in the air for two hours after an infected person was present, according to county health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include fever, rash, cough, red or watery eyes, and a runny nose. They usually appear 10-12 days after exposure, but can occur within a week or up to three weeks later, health officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The first symptoms are followed by a rash that starts on the face and moves downward, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Measles can lead to serious conditions such as pneumonia, brain swelling, or even death.<\/p>\n<p>People who are unvaccinated, young children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems are at the highest risk, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/mark-prussin\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark  Prussin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey state health officials are warning of potential\u00a0measles\u00a0exposures at Newark Liberty International Airport. The state Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,16082,3266,111973],"class_list":{"0":"post-215515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-measles","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-newark-liberty-international-airport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}