{"id":301066,"date":"2025-11-23T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301066\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:13:08","slug":"is-america-next-after-canada-to-lose-its-measles-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301066\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America next after Canada to lose its measles elimination status?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada officially lost its measles elimination status this month, one that it held for nearly 30 years \u2014 a shameful consequence of falling childhood vaccination rates.<\/p>\n<p>In normal times, Canada\u2019s misfortune might serve as yet another wake-up call for public health leaders in the U.S., which is precariously close to losing its own measles-free status.<\/p>\n<p>But these are not normal times. Anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric continue to grow more deeply entrenched \u2014 within our health agencies, through local and state policies and in the public imagination \u2014 making the nation\u2019s elimination status only one of many looming threats to public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada officially lost its measles elimination status this month, one that it held for nearly 30 years \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,5041,1058,28284,3436,178,13359],"class_list":["post-301066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-measles","tag-medicine","tag-rfk","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-u-s","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301066","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=301066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}