{"id":480247,"date":"2026-06-16T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480247\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:40:14","slug":"connecticut-confirms-first-measles-case-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480247\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Confirms First Measles Case Of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally, 2,073 cases have been reported so far this year, a figure that is on pace to surpass the 2,288 cases reported in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In the past five years, Connecticut has recorded only two other measles cases. <\/p>\n<p>Both involved unvaccinated residents who had recently traveled internationally, according to the Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of measles typically appear seven to 14 days after exposure and often begin with fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and sore throat. <\/p>\n<p>A rash generally develops three to five days later, starting at the hairline and spreading downward across the body. Fevers can exceed 104 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationally, 2,073 cases have been reported so far this year, a figure that is on pace to surpass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-480247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480247","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=480247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}