A New Jersey resident with measles may have exposed others to the highly contagious disease in Bergen County this month, The New Jersey Department of Health announced Tuesday.

The unidentified person visited two locations in Hillsdale on Feb. 18, the AFC Urgent Care at 2 Broadway between 2 and 5 p.m. and the Walgreens at 383 Washington Ave. between 3 and 5:30 p.m., according to statement from the department.

The individual recently had contact with a community outside of New Jersey that was experiencing an ongoing outbreak of measles, the department said.

The community was not identified by health department officials.

The health department asked anyone who visited the two Hillsdale locations to call their doctor “immediately to discuss potential exposure and risk of developing the illness."

Anyone who was exposed was at risk of getting the disease if they have not been vaccinated or have not had measles. Measles symptoms, which include fever, coughing and a rash that usually starts on the face, might not develop until as late as March 18.

Measles can can cause serious complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis, a swelling of the brain, and can lead to a miscarriage, premature birth or low-birth weight baby for pregnant women.

The disease can be spread through the air when someone coughs or sneezes and an people can get sick if they come in contact with mucus or saliva from an infected person, officials said.

The news of the North Jersey case of measles comes just over one month after the outbreak in Ocean County and Passaic County ended with 33 people infected.

Jan. 16 marked 42 days since the last diagnosed case was considered infectious, or two full incubation periods, the Ocean County Health Department announced at the time.

The outbreak started in late October after the first measles case was confirmed in Lakewood involving a traveler who had contracted it in Israel.

In an unrelated incident in December, state health officials warned that an infected international traveler arrived in Newark Liberty International Airport on Christmas Eve

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