{"id":324388,"date":"2026-08-18T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:56:08","slug":"steuben-county-investigating-confirmed-measles-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324388\/","title":{"rendered":"Steuben County investigating confirmed measles case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case of measles has been confirmed in Steuben County.<\/p>\n<p>The county health department says it was informed about the case on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the resident, who was unvaccinated, is safely isolating at home until they are no longer contagious.<\/p>\n<p>The health department is conducting contact tracing and has identified potential public exposure sites.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Health Department says there have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/diseases\/communicable\/measles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">16 confirmed cases<\/a> of measles outside of New York City so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>While health officials say the risk of measles is low for the general public, especially those who have been vaccinated, the disease is still extremely contagious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A case of measles has been confirmed in Steuben County. The county health department says it was informed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,2953,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,115,380],"class_list":["post-324388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","tag-health","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324388","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=324388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}