Amid a surge of measles cases nationally, Orange County Health Care Agency officials Wednesday reported a confirmed case in the county.<\/p>\n
A young adult who had been traveling internationally was infected, officials said. Times and locations of possible exposure to the highly contagious virus occurred between 2 and 4 p.m. Friday at the EoS Gym in Ladera Ranch and the AFC Urgent Care in Ladera Ranch between 3:30 and 6 p.m. Friday and again 5 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n
There have been 416 confirmed cases so far this year in the country, and 2,255 cases last year, which was the highest annual case count in more than three decades, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone planning domestic or international travel \u2014 or hosting visitors \u2014 should be fully vaccinated at least two weeks beforehand,\u201d said Dr. Anissa Davis, deputy county health officer. \u201cAdults and others who are not immune remain at risk, especially as outbreaks continue across the country and worldwide. Vaccination is the best protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
Common symptoms of the virus are fever, cough, red-water eyes, and a rash that usually starts on the head and spread. The virus spreads through the air and by direct contact with someone who is infected. An infection can be spreading the virus four days before the rash is noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a surge of measles cases nationally, Orange County Health Care Agency officials Wednesday reported a confirmed case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1436,166,53248,171,10865],"class_list":["post-154235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-case","tag-county","tag-measles","tag-orange","tag-reported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}