{"id":14655,"date":"2025-07-16T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14655\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:48:03","slug":"1-more-measles-diagnosis-in-southwest-health-district-marks-10-cases-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14655\/","title":{"rendered":"1 more measles diagnosis in southwest health district marks 10 cases in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Another case of measles has been diagnosed in Utah, bringing this year’s state total to 10.<\/p>\n

This latest case involves an unvaccinated person residing within the Southwest Utah Public Health District, according to a press release issued by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The person reported self-isolating when they became sick, the release states, and the individual is already past the infectious period.<\/p>\n

All 10 individuals who have been diagnosed with measles in Utah, at this point, are unvaccinated, according to the state health department.<\/p>\n

Seven of them live in the Utah County Health Department. The health department announced on Friday that the measles virus had been detected in wastewater<\/a> in Provo, indicating that at least one person in the area has contracted the infection.<\/p>\n

The other three individuals who have confirmed infections are in the Southwest Utah Public Health District.<\/p>\n

The Utah Department of Health and Human Services said it has not identified any new exposure locations.<\/p>\n

Measles symptoms<\/a> typically appear about a week after exposure. Symptoms initially include a high fever, cough, runny nose, or red eyes and \u2014 after about four days \u2014 a rash will often appear.<\/p>\n

The state health department urges Utahns with symptoms to stay away from others and call their clinic or doctor before going out to prevent exposing others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Another case of measles has been diagnosed in Utah, bringing this year’s state total…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1302,3811,97,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}