{"id":359770,"date":"2026-06-13T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359770\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:11:09","slug":"health-officials-confirm-case-of-measles-in-santa-clara-county-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359770\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials confirm case of measles in Santa Clara County \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The County of Santa Clara Public Health Department confirmed Saturday a measles case involving a South Bay resident who visited public places while infectious. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the person, a Santa Clara County resident, traveled through San Francisco International Airport and visited two businesses in San Jose on Monday while contagious, leading the department to issue a warning regarding potential public exposure to measles.<\/p>\n<p>The health department added the person is an adult, believed to be exposed to measles during international travel. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to the CDC,<\/a> measles is highly contagious and can cause serious health complications, especially in children younger than 5 years of age. The symptoms include high ever, cough, runny nose, red, watery eyes and rash.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities said the best protection against measles is the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The County of Santa Clara Public Health Department confirmed Saturday a measles case involving a South Bay resident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,198],"class_list":["post-359770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359770","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=359770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}