{"id":152934,"date":"2026-02-12T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152934\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:03:07","slug":"jacksonville-chief-health-officer-explains-measles-symptoms-amid-rising-cases-says-virus-is-highly-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152934\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville chief health officer explains measles symptoms amid rising cases, says virus is highly contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEALTH<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">The City of Jacksonville Chief Health Officer Sunil Joshi is recommending any health workers who are not vaccinated against the measles to get their shots now.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, Joshi sent a warning to doctors and hospitals to tell patients if they have a rash or fever, to not walk into an ER or urgent care facility.<br \/>\nJoshi joined The Morning Show on Thursday morning to explain the symptoms everyone should watch for and how to test if someone has measles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEALTH The City of Jacksonville Chief Health Officer Sunil Joshi is recommending any health workers who are not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[571,116,118,117,17196,5436,9070],"class_list":{"0":"post-152934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-measles","13":"tag-morning-show","14":"tag-vaccines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152934","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=152934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}