{"id":9827,"date":"2019-04-10T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?p=9827"},"modified":"2019-04-10T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:17:24","slug":"gm-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/practice-news\/gm-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Measles Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 37 confirmed cases of measles have been reported within Greater Manchester in the last 3 months, with cases seen in five local authorities (Salford, Manchester, Bury, Bolton and Oldham).<\/p>\n<p>A large number of cases were identified in the Orthodox Jewish community within Salford, Manchester and Bury. In Oldham the majority of the cases reported were within the Romanian community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measles case vigilance and management: <\/strong>clinicians across primary and secondary care should have received information from Public Health England and reminded that suspected measles cases should be isolated immediately to protect other patients, where appropriate a diagnostic specimen should be sent and the case should be excluded from school, nursery or work for 4 days after the onset of rash.<\/p>\n<p>PHE National Measles Guidelines are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/national-measles-guidelines\">PHE Measles Guidelines<\/a> and a measles self-identify poster for GP Practices are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/measles-outbreak\">Posters: Measles Outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All suspected measles cases should be promptly notified <a href=\"https:\/\/indigo.phe.gov.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?REF=NGJt5pHAFL93z7fasqCXYv0-NNu23unApNp1Ue6hhu97XgEauX_WCAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3YudWsvaGVhbHRoLXByb3RlY3Rpb24tdGVhbQ..\">to the local Health Protection Team<\/a> (HPT) to facilitate timely public health action, including urgent risk assessment of any vulnerable contacts.<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 37 confirmed cases of measles have been reported within Greater Manchester in the last 3 months, with cases seen in five local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9827\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}