The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) has confirmed a case of measles in Ocean County and is urging residents to remain alert and take preventive measures, including ensuring up-to-date vaccination status for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) virus.
While only one case has been confirmed and New Jersey is not experiencing a measles outbreak (defined by the CDC as three or more related cases), health officials are emphasizing the importance of awareness due to the highly contagious nature of the disease.
Symptoms of measles typically include a high fever, cough, runny nose, red watery eyes, and a rash that usually begins on the face and spreads to the rest of the body. Measles can cause serious health complications, including pneumonia, encephalitis (brain swelling), and severe risks for pregnant individuals such as miscarriage or premature birth.
The NJDOH is currently working closely with local health departments to conduct contact tracing and notify individuals who may have been exposed. People potentially exposed could develop symptoms as late as July 22, 2025.
Residents are being strongly advised not to visit medical facilities without calling ahead if they suspect exposure or symptoms. Calling first allows health care providers to make special arrangements to prevent further spread of the virus.
Measles spreads easily through the air via coughing or sneezing and can linger in the air for up to two hours. Unvaccinated individuals and those who have not previously had measles are at the greatest risk.
The two-dose MMR vaccine remains the most effective defense against measles, mumps, and rubella. The vaccine is safe and strongly recommended for all eligible individuals. Infants between 6 and 11 months old who are traveling internationally should receive an early dose, followed by the standard two-dose schedule after their first birthday.
Health care providers are also urged to use every opportunity to check their patients’ immunization status and ensure routine vaccinations are up to date. Providers referring suspected cases are required to call the receiving facility in advance to allow for appropriate infection control measures.
No additional related cases have been identified in the state as of the time of this release.
For more information, residents should contact their local health department or visit the NJDOH website.
Two doses under 2 years old? They should give 3 or 4!!! It builds immunity 🙂
Immunity comes from eating healthfully; the body has its own immune system. For babies, they get immunity from before, during and after birth, as long as mother eats healthfully and does NOT take vaccines – which TAINT it.
Measles is GOOD; it detoxifies. Until vax came out in 1963, every child in US got measles by age 15, and no one died. Only in 1800’s, when cleanliness/sanitation and nutrition were atrocious, did some die from measles.
Getting measles prevents various forms of cancer and heart disease (-heard in speech from Robert Kennedy). MAINSTREAM doctors have injected live measles to cause the body to detoxify and cure from those forms of cancer, if the person had not yet gotten measles in his life. (-From book and site Dissolving Illusions)
Not to cause a panic but rather than “Ocean County” how about a municipality.
Yes, the article specifies tracking of the infected infant, but nevertheless the child’s home location would be a start to consider contact
Bugg off! Anyone who fills their bloodstream with trashy vaccinations is a rotzeach. Everyone knows vaccines cause cancer and many other horrible sicknesses. Research! Use your brains!
Everyone with a brain cell knows vaccines save lives. How many people have died from vaccines? How many people’s lives have saved by vaccines. You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You’re not smarter than doctors and scientists. You’re just some dangerous nobody from ocean county nj.
Extremely reckless of the Lakewood Scoop to platform dangerous misinformation. This endangers the community.
Exactly
To purposely not immunize your child/children against horrible diseases and thereby exposing others due to your decisions is extremely selfish. It is your moral obligation to protect your children be it by proven and safe immunizations, not leaving them in vehicles and not placing them in unsafe, unlicensed schools and daycares. I cannot fathom doing everything in my power to assure my childrens safety and health. I also find it very disturbing that there has be no mention at all regarding the illegal, horribly unsafe and negligient [unlicensed) daycares and schools that were recently closed down in Rockland County.
Before I went to school I had to get all my shots information before starting school
What is a pregnant “individual”?
Welcome to NJ, were right after delivery they can’t tell you if it is a boy or a girl. You have to tell them! So, it’s the same insane liberal lingo as “birthing person”.
What? What are you saying?
NJ Dept.. of “Health”.
All the junk food that damages the immune system is fine, but vaccines are important. (And no, vaccines don’t help for those who eat junk food – it doesn’t work that way).
Yupp lol. All the ultra processed foods, exorbitant levels of sugar, scandalous food dyes, those we can sell to our kids and give them as much as they want… But listen to me when I say to vaccinate because I’m trustworthy…
We all saw during Covid that big pharma owns the CDC etc. Until Kennedy is through with his reform I’ll decide when to vaccinate.
As you can see from the comments here, people are opening their eyes.
Johnathan Clark: Have you read up on vaccines before accusing us of being selfish?
If you told me you fully researched both sides, and still feel that vaxing according to CDC schedule is the most logical to you then ok. However if you are just following blind like a sheep then I don’t think you have the authority to call others selfish.
I love my children dearly and take full care of them, however I read books like “Turtles all the way Down” which I highly recommend which has opened my mind.
I still vaccinated but nothing compared to how much CDC would like.
Read that book or others so you hear both sides before bashing.
I searched that book and it looked good so I ordered it. However, I will state for the record that I work as a medical professional and I try to read every anti-vaccine literature that I can find (as well as pro-vaccine literature). So far, I am having a hard time understanding why there are people who feel that vaccines are “risky”. There are so many well done studies that show the safety and efficacy of vaccines. I think anyone who takes an honest (ie – as unbiased as possible) look at the literature will conclude the same thing.
I will try to read the book you recommended but I do not think that there will be any “chiddushim” in there that I haven’t heard before.
So to answer your question— Yes, I have taken a long and thorough look at both sides and have concluded that vaccination according to the CDC schedule is the best way to go in almost all cases (there are some vaccines for STD’s that I exclude from this statement due to the fact that STD’s are B’H much rarer in our community).
I suspect if you did the same thing that I did (instead of JUST reading biased anti-vaccine literature) you would actually come to the same conclusion!