{"id":536545,"date":"2026-03-21T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:40:28","slug":"salem-health-care-centers-identified-as-latest-measles-exposure-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536545\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem health care centers identified as latest measles exposure sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Two <a href=\"https:\/\/flashalert.net\/id\/OregonHealthAuthority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new locations<\/a> in Salem have been flagged as measles exposure sites. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Health officials are warning people who visited the emergency waiting room at the Salem Health Hospital on March 16 between 6:10 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. may have been exposed to measles. People who visited the second floor of the Kaiser Permanente Skyline Medical Office on March 13 between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. may also be at risk, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Officials with the Oregon Health Authority and Marion County are urging people who visited those locations during those timeframes to contact their health care provider immediately. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">\u201cThe health care provider can determine whether you are immune to measles based on your vaccination record, age, or laboratory evidence of prior infection,\u201d read a release from OHA. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7TUH6GEXSJD3FG24TDWK6TLRGA.jpg\" alt=\"Undated photo of a woman with rash caused by measles at an unspecified location.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:6000 \/ 4004;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Undated photo of a woman with rash caused by measles at an unspecified location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Efired \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Measles is highly contagious and can be deadly for sensitive groups, including children younger than 5 and pregnant people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oha\/PH\/DISEASESCONDITIONS\/DISEASESAZ\/Pages\/measles.aspx?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">state data<\/a>, there have been nine confirmed cases of measles across Oregon this year. Six were unvaccinated and three had an unknown vaccination status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new locations in Salem have been flagged as measles exposure sites. Health officials are warning people who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,240580,252,253],"class_list":["post-536545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-oregon","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536545","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=536545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}