{"id":269458,"date":"2026-02-05T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:33:06","slug":"health-officials-warn-of-possible-measles-exposure-in-collegeville-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269458\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials warn of possible measles exposure in Collegeville, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Health officials are warning the public of a possible measles exposure in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities say someone who recently traveled through the county tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">While contagious, that person visited Patient First Primary and Urgent Care on the 1400 block of South Collegeville Road in Collegeville on January 29, between 1:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEE ALSO | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/measles-outbreak-map-how-spot-disease-risk-level-zip-code\/18404987\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP code<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Montgomery County Department of Health says anyone who visited the office during that time may have been exposed and should monitor themselves for symptoms for 21 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Symptoms include an unexplained rash, cough, congestion or runny nose, or red watery eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads easily through the air when an infectious person breathes, coughs, or sneezes. It can also be spread when someone touches droplets from an infected person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Infants and children less than 5 years old, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems are most at-risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Measles can be prevented with two doses of the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Health officials are warning the public of a possible measles exposure in Montgomery County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[152930,134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-269458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-152930","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}