Health officials in Montgomery County have issued a warning to residents after a person with measles visited an urgent care in Collegeville while contagious. <\/p>\n
Officials said the individual with measles was at Patient First Primary and Urgent Care-Collegeville on\u00a0January 29, 2026, between 1:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Anyone who was at that urgent care on that date may have been exposed. <\/p>\n
If you believe you were exposed, officials urge that you monitor yourself for symptoms. Measles can remain airborne and on surfaces for up to two hours even after an infected person leaves.<\/p>\n
The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health shared a list of what to do if you think that you may have been exposed: <\/p>\n
\u2022 Check your vaccination records. Individuals are usually protected from measles if: You were born in 1957 or earlier, or you have had\u00a02 doses\u00a0of Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine, or the recommended vaccine doses based on your age. Laboratory testing confirming of disease or immunity.<\/p>\n
\u2022 If you are not fully vaccinated or protected and\u00a0think you might have been exposed, call\u00a0your health care provider, urgent care, or hospital\u00a0before\u00a0you visit.\u00a0This helps protect staff and other patients.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Watch for\u00a0symptoms\u00a0for 21 days after exposure, including fever, an unexplained rash, cough, congestion or runny nose, or red watery eyes (conjunctivitis).<\/p>\n
\u2022 If you develop symptoms, stay home and call a health care provider right away.<\/p>\n
Officials said infants and children less than 5 years old, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems are most at risk for complications.<\/p>\n
Measles can be prevented with two doses of the MMR vaccine.<\/p>\n
For more information about measles and vaccination, visit the\u00a0CDC’s \u201cAbout Measles\u201d webpage<\/a>\u00a0and read the\u00a0Pennsylvania Department of Health\u2019s factsheet \u201cMeasles: What You Need to Know<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials in Montgomery County have issued a warning to residents after a person with measles visited an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1057,34303,3831,200,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-108168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-health","tag-health-wellness","tag-health-care","tag-montgomery-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}