{"id":181115,"date":"2024-01-22T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/millions-in-the-uk-are-being-urged-to-get-vaccinations-during-a-surge-in-measles-cases"},"modified":"2024-01-22T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:24:43","slug":"millions-in-the-uk-are-being-urged-to-get-vaccinations-during-a-surge-in-measles-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/millions-in-the-uk-are-being-urged-to-get-vaccinations-during-a-surge-in-measles-cases","title":{"rendered":"Millions in the UK are being urged to get vaccinations during a surge in measles cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/millions-in-the-uk-are-being-urged-to-get-vaccinations-during-a-surge-in-measles-cases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.K. health officials on Monday urged millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there were about 250 confirmed measles cases in parts of England last year. Most cases were in children under 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The combined measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine is offered in the U.K. in two doses to all children, first at 12 months and then again at 3 years. Vaccination rates have dropped to about 85% nationally, and far lower in parts of London, according to U.K. Health Security Agency chief executive Jenny Harries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.K. health officials on Monday urged millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade. The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181115","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}