{"id":169494,"date":"2023-08-11T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/body-of-work-podcast-the-importance-of-vaccines-and-public-health"},"modified":"2023-08-11T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T01:23:31","slug":"body-of-work-podcast-the-importance-of-vaccines-and-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/body-of-work-podcast-the-importance-of-vaccines-and-public-health","title":{"rendered":"Body of Work podcast: The importance of vaccines and public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/body-of-work-podcast-the-importance-of-vaccines-and-public-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1992. While the spread of measles can be prevented with the MMR vaccine, misinformation about vaccines has gained traction in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>How do vaccines help protect communities and public health overall? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcm.edu\/people\/view\/peter-hotez-m-d-ph-d\/b1846a47-ffed-11e2-be68-080027880ca6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Peter Hotez<\/a>, dean for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcm.edu\/education\/schools\/national-school-of-tropical-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National School of Tropical Medicine<\/a> at Baylor College of Medicine, discusses what you should know about vaccines on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcm.edu\/podcast\/body-of-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body of Work podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to \u201cOutbreak\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcm.edu\/podcast\/body-of-work\/outbreak-a-tale-of-vaccines-in-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">your preferred platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1992. While the spread of measles can be prevented with the MMR vaccine, misinformation about vaccines has gained traction in recent years. How do vaccines help protect communities and public health overall? Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169494","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}