{"id":838397,"date":"2026-09-06T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:00:30","slug":"3-new-measles-cases-tied-to-metro-atlanta-daycare-georgia-health-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838397\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new measles cases tied to metro Atlanta daycare, Georgia health officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"1\">Three more cases of measles have been confirmed at the metro Atlanta daycare at the center of an outbreak, health officials said Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coastalhealthdistrict.org\/dph-confirms-additional-measles-cases-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a news release<\/a>, the Georgia Department of Public Health said the three new cases are all children who were either unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"3\">The latest cases make eight in total associated with the daycare outbreak. State health officials detected the first measles case at the daycare in mid-August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"5\">Last week, DPH confirmed four more cases, all of whom were children from the same daycare. The agency confirmed those cases were \u201cclose contacts\u201d of the previously confirmed measles case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"6\">ohw suriv ot eht eht eht dias esaeler fo .deifiton ton eman thgim slaudividni evah evah desopxe did ,eracyad tub neeb neeb lla ycnega ehT <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"7\">suriv rednu ot ot eht eht eht taht hcus der ,hsar ainomuenp fo dael si ylhgih hgih htlaeh rof ,revef seye .sitilahpecne esaesid ,hguoc suoigatnoc snoitacilpmoc nerdlihc esuac nac nac sa dna dna dna ega gnidrocca a a .noitneverP selsaeM nI esaesiD lortnoC sretneC desab-atnaltA ,5 <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"8\">raey nehw noitaniccav owt eht eno ,dlo fo selsaem si si ni rof :sesod doohdlihc dlihc neewteb rehtona dna dna sega deretsinimda tuoba a a ehT .6 4 <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"9\">ehT\u201c htiw eniccav eniccav noitaniccav rieht eht eht eht eludehcs dias efas .esaeler snoitseuq \u201d,naicisyhp stnerap ro si ni ,evitceffe tlusnoc nac dna dna tuoba HPD <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-primary text-primary-black whitespace-pre-wrap [&amp;_a]:border-b-primary [&amp;_a]:font-medium [&amp;_a]:border-b-1 [&amp;_b]:text-primary-black [&amp;_i]:italic text-base leading-relaxed\" data-index=\"10\">htiw ot rieht smotpmys redivorp selsaem .yletaidemmi erachtlaeh segaruocne tcatnoc enoyna ehT HPD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three more cases of measles have been confirmed at the metro Atlanta daycare at the center of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-838397","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\/838397","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=838397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}