Posted on 01/12/2026 9:30:15 PM PST by Morgana
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials are warning that there may have been a possible measles exposure at Philadelphia International Airport, 30th Street Station and aboard an Amtrak train.
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health says an individual with measles was traveling through the city and that the exposure may have happened at Terminal A East at PHL on Wednesday, January 7, between 7:50 p.m. and 11 p.m.
The exposure at William H Gray 30th Street Station may have happened between 8:15 p.m. and 11:25 p.m.
Passengers who were on Amtrak Northeast Regional Train Southbound #175 are also at risk of possible exposure, from the train's scheduled stop in Philadelphia at 9:23 p.m. on January 7 through 11:30 p.m.
"We believe there is no threat to the general public associated with this case of measles," said Health Commissioner Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson. "We encourage people who were possibly exposed to take action if they are not protected against measles."
Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through the air when infected people cough, sneeze, or talk. People who aren't protected against measles can get the virus up to two hours after someone else with measles left the same room or airspace.
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PA PING
Measles!!!! What’s next...possible rhinovirus??
I remember the good old days when measles was a dead disease in the USA, back before the democrats decided to open the borders and drain the entire 3rd world into our country and brought it back.
I had the measles almost 70 years ago - got them during a “measles party” in the mid 50s...got Chicken pox and Mumps the same way...don’t have to worry about them ever again...
Not shocked, The Philly airport is filthy. Walking out of the terminals to the bus/taxi stand one must waft through a hundred yards of the stench of hot steamy urine. And the people that work there are outright rude and nasty-and, yes, occasionally racist.
At that rate you will never see your 30th birthday. ;=)
It used to be a right of passage as a child. We also never knew anyone with a peanut allergy and maybe only one with asthma.
EC
The immune system is like a muscle, use it, or lose it!
You know your in Philly when that combination of urine, marijuana, and humidity hits you.
Actually, that describes most urban environments these days, plus or minus the humidity.
“At that rate you will never see your 30th birthday. ;=)”
Yep - I’d need a DeLorean with a flux capacitor to revisit 30.
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