{"id":211198,"date":"2026-06-05T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:36:10","slug":"recent-erie-county-measles-case-linked-to-international-travel-as-new-york-state-reports-12-cases-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211198\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Erie County measles case linked to international travel as New York State reports 12 cases in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 A person has tested positive for measles in Western New York. <\/p>\n<p>The patient lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.erie.gov\/health\/press\/erie-county-department-health-confirms-local-case-measles\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www3.erie.gov\/health\/press\/erie-county-department-health-confirms-local-case-measles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie County<\/a>. This is the first confirmed measles case there since 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the person tested positive Thursday after traveling overseas. <\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include fever, cough, pink and watery eyes or a runny nose followed by a rash. Doctors said everyone should make sure they\u2019ve received their measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest update on measles cases in the state by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/diseases\/communicable\/measles\/#:~:text=So%20far%20in%202026%2C%20there,of%20State)%20for%2048%20total.\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/diseases\/communicable\/measles\/#:~:text=So%20far%20in%202026%2C%20there,of%20State)%20for%2048%20total.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Health Department<\/a>, there have been 12 reported cases thus far in 2026. Half of the reported cases are in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, there were 20 confirmed cases in the city, with 28 cases in the rest of the state, for a total of 48 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. \u2014 A person has tested positive for measles in Western New York. The patient lives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-211198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211198","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=211198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}