New York and New Jersey residents may have been exposed to measles, after a traveler returning to the U.S. from Israel was confirmed to have the disease, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced Saturday.

Between Oct. 4 and 11, the traveler visited an athletic club in Bergen County, as well as seven other locations in New York near the border with New Jersey, including a kosher market, a Costco and an emergency room in Westchester.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that comes from a virus spread by direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people.

The DOH listed the following locations as places that could have been exposed to the disease:

Congregation Bais Elazer, 26 Voyager Court, Monsey, N.Y. on Oct. 4 between 8-11 a.m.

Mia's Reflexology, 191 South Main Street, New City, N.Y. on Oct. 4 between 7-9 p.m.

Lifetime Gym, 10 Van Riper Road, Montvale, New Jersey on Oct. 5 between 8:30 a.m. and noon.

Wesley Kosher, 455 Route 306, Monsey, N.Y. on Oct. 5 between 10-1 p.m.

Congregation Borov, 2 Parker Road, Monsey, N.Y.

Costco, 50 Overlook Blvd., Nanuet, N.Y. on Oct. 7 between 1:30-5 p.m.

Care 365, 1 Main Street, Monsey, N.Y. on Oct. 8 between 10 p.m. and midnight.

Westchester Medical Center Emergency Room, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, N.Y. on Oct. 11 between 3:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

These times reflect the period in which the infected individual was in these areas and a two-hour period after the individual left the area. The virus remains alive in air and on surfaces for up to two hours, the DOH said.

The DOH is encouraging residents of the area to get vaccinated with two doses of MMR vaccine to be fully protected.

A call to the Lifetime Gym in Montvale on Sunday morning was not immediately returned.

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