WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Area health officials reported the sixth and seventh confirmed measles cases Tuesday, including the first in Virgina, and they also identified six additional sites at which people could have been exposed to the highly communicable virus.

D.C.'s health department confirmed Tuesday that an unidentified woman is being treated for measles. Her husband has already been treated and she had previously been suspected of infection.

The Virginia Department of Health announced a Prince William County (web | news) resident has measles, the first confirmed case in the Commonwealth this year. The case is not linked to six other infections in D.C. and Maryland, officials said. How the Virginia resident became infected also remains under investigation, officials said.

Measles is highly contagious, though nearly all Americans have been vaccinated against it. Those most at risk are immigrants, and children 1-year-old and younger.

Initial symptoms of measles include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes, which can last about a week. The measles virus spreads through coughing, sneezing, and contact with secretions from the nose, mouth, and throat of an infected individual. The virus can live in the air for several hours after a person coughs or sneezes.

Prince William County 7-Eleven -- 1445 Old Bridge Road, Woodbridge Wednesday, April 15:  11:45 a.m. - 7:15 p.m Safeway, 2205 Old Bridge Road, Woodbridge Wednesday, April 15:      7:45 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. Fairfax County (web | news) Harris Teeter, 8200 Crestwood Heights Drive, McLean Friday, April 10:               9:45 p.m. - 12 a.m. Saturday, April 11:              12 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Sunday, April 12:               9:45 a.m. - 6:15 p.m. Monday, April 13:            9:45 p.m. - 12 a.m. Tuesday, April 14:                12 a.m. - 6:15 a.m. IHOP, 6655 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church Sunday, April 12:             4:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. CVS, 9009 Silverbrook Road, Fairfax Station Tuesday, April 14:           4:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Washington, D.C. Ultra Bar, 911 F Street, NW Saturday, April 11:         11:45 p.m. - 5 a.m., Sunday, April 12

Listed below are the dates, times and locations of known exposure sites associated with this Virginia measles case. If people were at these locations on these dates and during the specified time, they may have been exposed to measles. Please call the Virginia Disease Prevention Hotline at (800) 533-4148 if you suspect you have been exposed in Virginia. Those possibly exposed in D.C. should call 311 if they are D.C. residents or (202) 737-4404 if they live outside D.C.

 These six possible expsoure sites are in addition to seven sites identified Monday(CLICK HERE). Some people who frequent the locations are afraid of possibly contracting the virus.

"I went on the web and I checked that all out. Then I went on the hotline and then I called my doctor," said D.C. resident Gerald Miller.

"Yeah it scared me!" added D.C. resident Kianna Wilson. "I'm about to go to Safeway and get hot dogs and hamburgers and I'm kind of scared I'm going to catch the measles!"

Woodbridge resident Pam Fitzgerald doesn't like what she read on the door of her grocery store. "It's a little bit nerve-wracking. I've got two young kids, an eight-year-old and a two-year-old, so clearly it's something I have to be concerned about with them," she said.

If you believe you need to be tested, you're asked to call your doctor ahead of time, so as not to infect anyone else in the process.

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