{"id":15641,"date":"2019-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/measles-outbreak-prompts-public-emergency-in-washington-state\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:56:21","slug":"measles-outbreak-prompts-public-emergency-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/measles-outbreak-prompts-public-emergency-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak Prompts Public Emergency in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>23 measles cases confirmed and two more suspected cases under investigation<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An ongoing measles outbreak has led to a public health emergency being declared in Clark County, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The latest update from the county&#8217;s health department said that 23 measles cases have been confirmed and two more suspected cases are under investigation, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported. Most cases involve children ages 1 to 10 years. Four cases are in youngsters ages 11 to 18, and one case is in a person between ages 19 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak is in an antivaccination hot spot near Portland, Oregon, according to <i>CBS News<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>While measles is highly contagious, it is also one of the most preventable diseases, Jonathan Mou, M.D., from Adventist Health in Portland, told <i>CBS News<\/i>. &#8220;Once it sets into a community, the likelihood of it getting beyond that community or more widespread within that community is high, especially when vaccination rates are low.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/emergency-declared-over-measles-in-anti-vax-hotspot\/ar-BBSEpAP\" target=\"_new\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 measles cases confirmed and two more suspected cases under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}