{"id":414921,"date":"2026-04-24T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:05:14","slug":"japan-health-chief-calls-for-measles-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414921\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Health Chief Calls for Measles Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Society\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tApr 24, 2026 16:58 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, April 24 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japan&#8217;s health minister Kenichiro Ueno said Friday he will call for nationwide vaccination to prevent measles.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of recent outbreaks of the highly infectious disease in the country, Ueno told a press conference that he will hold an emergency meeting to ask local governments to consider vaccination programs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the health chief, 299 measles cases were reported between Jan. 1 and April 12, already exceeding the total figure for 2025. Cluster infections were observed at schools and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The infection spread can be blamed chiefly for imported cases and falling vaccination rates in and outside the country,&#8221; Ueno said.<\/p>\n<p>He advised that suspected measles patients refrain from going out, follow instructions provided by medical institutions and avoid using public transportation when visiting a doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2993389.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2993389\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2993389.jpg\" data-libid=\"2993389\"\/><\/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 Society Apr 24, 2026 16:58 (JST) Tokyo, April 24 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japan&#8217;s health minister Kenichiro Ueno said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,23484],"class_list":["post-414921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jiji-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414921","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=414921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}