{"id":181558,"date":"2024-01-28T04:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/cdc-warns-health-care-workers-to-be-on-alert-for-measles-amid-rising-number-of-cases"},"modified":"2024-01-28T04:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:24:27","slug":"cdc-warns-health-care-workers-to-be-on-alert-for-measles-amid-rising-number-of-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/cdc-warns-health-care-workers-to-be-on-alert-for-measles-amid-rising-number-of-cases","title":{"rendered":"CDC warns health care workers to be on alert for measles amid rising number of cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cdc-warns-health-care-workers-to-be-on-alert-for-measles-amid-rising-number-of-cases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning clinicians to remain on alert for <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/measles-after-ohio-outbreak-sickens-19-children\/story?id=93820148\" target=\"_blank\">measles cases<\/a> due to a growing number of infections.<\/p>\n<p>Between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed cases of measles including seven cases from international travelers and two outbreaks with five or more infections each, according to an <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/newsletters\/coca\/2024\/012524.html\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> sent this week.<\/p>\n<p>Cases have been reported in <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/philadelphia-tracking-measles-outbreak\/story?id=106201500\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/camden-county-health-department-measles-case-nj-news\/14318022\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a>, <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/measles-wilmington-delaware-nemours-childrens-hospital-division-of-public-health\/14312380\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delaware<\/a> and the <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/dchealth.dc.gov\/release\/dc-cautions-residents-potential-measles-exposure#:~:text=The%20virus%20is%20transmitted%20when, infected%20person%20leaves%20an%20area.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C. area<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning clinicians to remain on alert for measles cases due to a growing number of infections. Between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed cases of measles including seven cases from international travelers and two outbreaks with five or more infections [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}