The New Jersey Health Department has issued a travel advisory in the city after a person infected with highly contagious measles travelled by air and passed through the Newark Liberty International Airport, earlier this month.

Health officials said the infected traveler, who wasn’t a New Jersey resident, passed through Terminal B on October 19 between 2:15 pm and 5:30 pm. Those who may have been around or at the same airport, or around the same terminal are at the risk of catching this disease.

The authorities have said that it is likeky passengers who were at the Newark Airport and may have been exposed to the disease may not develop symptoms until November 9 as the virus can take 11 to 12 days to show symptoms.

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