{"id":91709,"date":"2019-06-06T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-u-s-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:42:54","slug":"the-u-s-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-u-s-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. could lose its measles elimination status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-u-s-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly two decades since the U.S. officially eliminated measles, but we may lose that status before we hit the 20-year mark.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2019\/06\/05\/as-measles-cases-surpass-1000-secretary-azar-reinforces-commitment-to-vaccination.html\">Department of Health and Human Services announced<\/a> that we\u2019ve now topped 1,000 cases in 2019. Elimination isn\u2019t about case numbers, though, it\u2019s about time\u2014and just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2019\/p0530-us-measles-2019.html\">the Director of the CDC warned<\/a> that we could be in danger of losing our status as a measles-eliminated country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/US-lose-measles-elimination-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly two decades since the U.S. officially eliminated measles, but we may lose that status before we hit the 20-year mark. This week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that we\u2019ve now topped 1,000 cases in 2019. Elimination isn\u2019t about case numbers, though, it\u2019s about time\u2014and just last week, the Director [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91709","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=91709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}