{"id":238620,"date":"2019-05-30T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238620"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:11:29","slug":"measles-record-means-us-could-lose-eradication-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/measles-record-means-us-could-lose-eradication-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles record means US could lose eradication status"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Anti-vax people will sooner or later start to panic\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The number of US measles patients has reached a record high and may cause the nation to lose its &#8220;measles elimination status&#8221;, US health officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty new cases were reported in the past week, bringing this year&#8217;s total to 971 cases in 26 US states &#8211; the highest since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The disease was declared effectively eliminated from the US in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Recent outbreaks have been attributed to foreign travellers spreading it to those lacking vaccinations in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Thursday: &#8220;If these outbreaks continue through summer and fall, the United States may lose its measles elimination status.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That loss would be a huge blow for the nation and erase the hard work done by all levels of public health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The measles elimination goal, first announced in 1963 and accomplished in 2000, was a monumental task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-48468801?fbclid=IwAR3gI1i1ROUk8t55vK8Y7KYzCVvOtYsX1Sk5t174T8pXBWz_z5QIPaDQjW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-48468801?fbclid=IwAR3gI1i1ROUk8t55vK8Y7KYzCVvOtYsX1Sk5t174T8pXBWz_z5QIPaDQjW4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Anti-vax people will sooner or later start to panic\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}