{"id":288963,"date":"2026-09-18T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:40:08","slug":"possible-measles-exposure-at-chop-including-newborns-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288963\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Measles Exposure At CHOP, Including Newborns: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough, and red, watery eyes followed by a rash. Serious infection can lead to pneumonia, brain infection and death.<\/p>\n<p>Children younger than 5 are especially prone to serious measles complications if they&#8217;re not vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Prevention<\/p>\n<p>The Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine is widely considered a safe and effective way to protect yourself against measles.<\/p>\n<p>The MMR vaccine is routinely recommended for children 12 to 15 months old, with a second dose given for given at age 4 to 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough, and red, watery eyes followed by a rash. Serious infection can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288963","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=288963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}