JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 According to state health data, four cases of measles have now been reported in Duval County in 2026.<\/p>\n
Dr. Mobeen Rathore, a pediatric infectious disease doctor in Jacksonville, explained on my 10 a.m. streaming show on News4JAX+ that just three cases, \u201cby definition, is an outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n
At least two of the cases in Jacksonville involve pediatric patients from the same home. Details have not been released on the other two.<\/p>\n
An adult in St. Johns County was also reported to have the measles in January.<\/p>\n
According to the state databas<\/a>e, there are currently seven cases of measles in Florida. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention database, however, shows nine cases in the Sunshine State, through Jan. 29<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only eight cases of measles were reported in Florida in all of 2025.<\/p>\n Rathore explained that the symptoms of measles, at first, are very similar to those of any other viral infection. <\/p>\n \u201cSymptoms include fever, rash, cough,\u201d he said. \u201cYou will have a runny nose, red watery eyes. It is very difficult early on to differentiate it from many other viral infections that people can get.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the incubation period for measles is one reason measles is \u201cone of the most contagious infections.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou can be in the same room or the same aircraft or the same store and you can get the measles infection from that person who\u2019s infected,\u201d Rathore said. \u201cAnd so you could have been exposed, but you don\u2019t even realize it for a week, maybe even longer.\u201d<\/p>\n He warned that one measles patient can infect nine to 10 other people.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that is why in a disease like measles, which is highly contagious, there is no treatment for it, but there\u2019s a vaccine that is very effective, that can prevent the disease,\u201d Rathore said. \u201cAnybody who\u2019s unvaccinated not only puts themselves at risk, but will also put other people who they come in contact with at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n Press play above to watch Dr. Rathore\u2019s full interview<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 According to state health data, four cases of measles have now been reported in Duval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1039,28,571,116,118,117,17196,68519],"class_list":{"0":"post-141033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-duval-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-measles","15":"tag-measles-outbreak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}