{"id":31542,"date":"2024-01-27T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31542"},"modified":"2024-01-27T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:29:45","slug":"measles-is-growing-global-threat-cdc-tells-doctors-in-alert-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31542","title":{"rendered":"Measles is \u201cgrowing global threat,\u201d CDC tells doctors in alert message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/measles-800x530-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"164\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Since December, there have been 23 measles cases in the US, including two outbreaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2024\/01\/cdc-puts-us-doctors-on-alert-for-measles-outbreaks-amid-global-surge\/\">Measles is \u201cgrowing global threat,\u201d CDC tells doctors in alert message<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Between December 1, 2023, and January 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed measles cases in the US, including seven direct importations by international travelers and two outbreaks with more than five cases each, the CDC noted. Most of the cases were in unvaccinated children and teens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Globally and in the US, vaccination rates against measles\u2014via the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR)\u2014have fallen in recent years due to pandemic-related health care disruption and vaccine hesitancy fueled by misinformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since December, there have been 23 measles cases in the US, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[368,1548,945,547],"class_list":["post-31542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-anti-vax","tag-measles","tag-rwnj","tag-who","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31545,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31542\/revisions\/31545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}