{"id":379525,"date":"2026-04-03T06:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:24:10","slug":"japan-health-minister-warns-about-rising-measles-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379525\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Health Minister Warns about Rising Measles Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tApr 3, 2026 14:19 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, April 3 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese health minister Kenichiro Ueno on Friday urged the public to exercise caution as measles cases are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is highly contagious, and one in 1,000 people is said to die even in developed countries,&#8221; Ueno told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people infected with the disease in Japan this year had reached 152 as of March 22, the highest total for the same period since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please consider vaccination if your children are eligible for routine immunizations or if you are unsure of your own vaccination history,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2981398.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2981398\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2981398.jpg\" data-libid=\"2981398\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Apr 3, 2026 14:19 (JST) Tokyo, April 3 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese health minister Kenichiro Ueno on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,23484],"class_list":{"0":"post-379525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jiji-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}