\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth officials are raising alarms as a measles outbreak spreads across Northern California, with six confirmed cases reported in the Sacramento region \u2014 two in Sacramento County and four in Placer County.Public health officials say a contagious child may have exposed more than 100 children during an enrichment educational event on Feb. 24. Details about the location of the event have not been publicly disclosed. Leaders of the enrichment program say they have voluntarily agreed to temporarily shut down the facilitySacramento County officials say that a contagious child was also treated at Kaiser Medical Center in Roseville. In a statement, Kaiser said it is working with health officials to identify and contact anyone who may have been exposed and determine appropriate next steps.Measles is an airborne virus and one of the most contagious diseases in the world, particularly among children. Health experts say the virus can infect anyone who is not protected through vaccination. Health experts say vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent infection. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine \u2014 known as the MMR vaccine \u2014 provides more than 99% protection against measles for people who are fully vaccinated.\u201cIf people are vaccinated, the vaccine provides more than 99% protection against measles,\u201d Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis, said. \u201cThat\u2019s why being vaccinated is so important to prevent infection.\u201dSee more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Health officials are raising alarms as a measles outbreak spreads across Northern California, with six confirmed cases reported in the Sacramento region \u2014 two in Sacramento County and four in Placer County.<\/a><\/p>\n Public health officials say a contagious child may have exposed more than 100 children during an enrichment educational event on Feb. 24. Details about the location of the event have not been publicly disclosed. Leaders of the enrichment program say they have voluntarily agreed to temporarily shut down the facility<\/p>\n Sacramento County officials say that a contagious child was also treated at Kaiser Medical Center in Roseville.<\/a> In a statement, Kaiser said it is working with health officials to identify and contact anyone who may have been exposed and determine appropriate next steps.<\/p>\n Measles is an airborne virus and one of the most contagious diseases in the world, particularly among children. Health experts say the virus can infect anyone who is not protected through vaccination. <\/p>\n Health experts say vaccination remains the most effective way to prevent infection. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine \u2014 known as the MMR vaccine \u2014 provides more than 99% protection against measles for people who are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n \u201cIf people are vaccinated, the vaccine provides more than 99% protection against measles,\u201d Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis, said. \u201cThat\u2019s why being vaccinated is so important to prevent infection.\u201d<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials are raising alarms as a measles outbreak spreads across Northern California, with six confirmed cases reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18550,96161,96163,2820,3409,2305,11293,96166,15450,96162,8704,96160,4725,473,7181,65900,53248,77235,96164,2971,96165,592,10288,7450,121,357,123,122,36686,38863,8290],"class_list":{"0":"post-208669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-18550","9":"tag-airborne","10":"tag-airborne-virus","11":"tag-app","12":"tag-child","13":"tag-children","14":"tag-denzen-cortez","15":"tag-dr-dean-blumberg","16":"tag-exposure","17":"tag-health-expert","18":"tag-health-official","19":"tag-infected","20":"tag-infection","21":"tag-kcra","22":"tag-kids","23":"tag-measle-outbreak","24":"tag-measles","25":"tag-mmr-vaccine","26":"tag-mump","27":"tag-nbc","28":"tag-pediatric-infectious-disease","29":"tag-people","30":"tag-placer-county","31":"tag-protection","32":"tag-sacramento","33":"tag-sacramento-county","34":"tag-sacramento-headlines","35":"tag-sacramento-news","36":"tag-sacramento-region","37":"tag-sick","38":"tag-vaccination"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208669","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=208669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}