{"id":260893,"date":"2025-11-04T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260893\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:14:09","slug":"us-canada-face-loss-of-measles-elimination-status-by-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260893\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada Face Loss of Measles Elimination Status by WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">  Hi, it\u2019s Jessica in Washington. A key meeting starts today that will decide measles elimination status for the Americas. More on that in a moment, but first &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It was a proud moment for US health officials in 2000 when the World Health Organization declared that measles had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/about\/history.html\" title=\"CDC: History of measles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">eliminated<\/a> from the nation. The achievement \u2014 meaning the US had seen no continuous spread of the disease for more than 12 months \u2014 followed a 1989 change in recommendations that students be given a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/07\/20\/us\/2d-measles-shot-urged-for-everyone-under-32.html\" title=\"1989 New York Times article: 2d Measles Shot Urged For Everyone Under 32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">second dose<\/a> of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, it\u2019s Jessica in Washington. A key meeting starts today that will decide measles elimination status for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[160,45,49,48,84,14211,27759,4470,31529,995,517,544,1895,3642,16119],"class_list":["post-260893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-americas","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-kimberly-clark-corp","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-prognosis","tag-regulation","tag-south-carolina","tag-texas","tag-utah","tag-washington","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}