A person from out-of-state may have exposed others to measles while at the New Stanton Service Plaza on the westbound side Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to the state Department of Health.<\/p>\n
The potential exposure happened on Aug. 17, officials said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who was at the service plaza that day in areas including Burger King, Starbucks, Sunoco, 7-11, restrooms and the dining area is encouraged to check their vaccination status and monitor themselves for symptoms, health officials said.<\/p>\n
Symptoms include a fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes that can start seven to 21 days after exposure. A rash starts on the head or face and spreads downward. Measles is a virus that infects the lungs and spreads when an infected person breaths, coughs or sneezes, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n
Anyone who isn\u2019t vaccinated against the highly contagious virus and may have been exposed is asked to contact their healthcare provider or the state Department of Health at 877-724-3258.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person from out-of-state may have exposed others to measles while at the New Stanton Service Plaza on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-835101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835101","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=835101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}