{"id":886088,"date":"2026-09-06T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886088\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T23:56:19","slug":"bangkok-post-who-praises-rubella-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886088\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post &#8211; WHO praises rubella milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLISHED : 7 Sep 2026 at 06:16<\/p>\n<p>Thailand has been recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated rubella as a public health issue, marking a significant milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nilesh Buddha, Officer-in-Charge of the WHO in the South-East Asia Region, endorsed the Regional Verification Commission&#8217;s recommendation following a review and a field visit in July.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is now the seventh country in the region to achieve rubella elimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 7 Sep 2026 at 06:16 Thailand has been recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,307375,84,307377,307373,307376,307374,307371,307372,16119],"class_list":["post-886088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disease-control-thailand","tag-health","tag-nilesh-buddha","tag-public-health-thailand","tag-regional-verification-commission","tag-rubella-vaccination-progress","tag-thailand-rubella-elimination","tag-who-south-east-asia-region","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886088","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=886088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}