{"id":132006,"date":"2026-02-13T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:27:09","slug":"1-confirmed-case-of-measles-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132006\/","title":{"rendered":"1 confirmed case of measles in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/friifo4uectn7r7r.jpg\" alt=\"Health expert explains severity of measles outbreak on Amtrak train\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/health\/health-topics\/measles.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">one confirmed measles case in New York City<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York City&#8217;s Department of Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   Measles in NYC <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The individual with a confirmed case of measles is an unvaccinated infant who recently traveled internationally.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The department is working to inform people who may have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p> What is measles? <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the department&#8217;s official website, measles is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/health\/health-topics\/measles.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">contagious virus<\/a> that can cause fever and a rash.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-2260061420-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the measles vaccine at a health module in Chapultepec Park during a mass vaccination campaign launched by the Ministry of Health in response to the increase in measles cases in Mexico City on February 8, 2026. ( <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">If one person has measles, up to 90% of people around them will also get it if they are unvaccinated or otherwise not immune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from New York City&#8217;s Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/health\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; There is one confirmed measles case in New York City, according to New York City&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2953,9,12,56,63,65,64,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-132006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}