{"id":151012,"date":"2022-11-24T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/who-cdc-a-record-40-million-kids-miss-measles-vaccine-dose"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T18:24:12","slug":"who-cdc-a-record-40-million-kids-miss-measles-vaccine-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/who-cdc-a-record-40-million-kids-miss-measles-vaccine-dose","title":{"rendered":"WHO, CDC: A record 40 million kids miss measles vaccine dose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-cdc-a-record-40-million-kids-miss-measles-vaccine-dose2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a report issued Wednesday, the WHO and the CDC said millions of children were now susceptible to measles, among the world\u2019s most contagious diseases. In 2021, officials said there were about 9 million measles infections and 128,000 deaths worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO and CDC said continued drops in vaccination, weak disease surveillance and delayed response plans due to COVID-19, in addition to ongoing outbreaks in more than 20 countries, mean that \u201cmeasles is an imminent threat in every region of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of nearly 40 million children missing a vaccine dose last year. In a report issued Wednesday, the WHO and the CDC said millions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}