{"id":282951,"date":"2026-05-24T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:01:10","slug":"florida-health-officials-confirm-measles-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282951\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida health officials confirm measles infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Florida Department of Health in Orange County has reported two confirmed cases of measles, according to data from the Florida Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The confirmed cases involve one individual aged zero to four and another aged 25 to 29, with both infections contracted within Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Measles is a very contagious disease that spreads through respiratory aerosols when an infected person coughs or sneezes, as explained by the Florida Board of Respiratory Care.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The virus can remain viable for up to two hours on surfaces or within an enclosed space following a cough or sneeze by an infected individual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incubation period for measles varies from seven to 21 days, typically averaging 10 to 12 days. An infected person can spread the virus to others before showing any symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Department of Health in Orange County has reported two confirmed cases of measles, according to data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71149,120318,28,1369,30,29,120319,17196,1335],"class_list":["post-282951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-confirmed-cases","tag-contagious-disease","tag-florida","tag-florida-department-of-health","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-infected-individual","tag-measles","tag-orange-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282951","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=282951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}