{"id":601528,"date":"2026-08-22T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:04:30","slug":"sweden-dozens-of-measles-cases-linked-to-the-urkult-festival-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601528\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden: Dozens of measles cases linked to the Urkult festival reported"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sweden Public Health Agency, or Folkhalsomyndigheten, reports the measles outbreak linked to the Urkult festival in Region V\u00e4sternorrland continues to grow. <\/p>\n

The festival took place from 30 July to 1 August.<\/p>\n

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As of August 21, 27 cases have been reported. The majority of cases are school-age children and young adults. Most of the cases have been unvaccinated against measles, officials report.<\/p>\n

The cases have been reported from nine regions: Gotland (1 case), J\u00e4mtland H\u00e4rjedalen (5 cases), Sk\u00e5ne (1 case), Stockholm (9 cases), S\u00f6rmland (2 cases), V\u00e4rmland (2 cases), V\u00e4sterbotten (5 cases), V\u00e4sternorrland (1 case) and V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland (1 case). 1 case has been reported from Finland.<\/p>\n

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Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases. The virus is spread through exhaled air when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. The disease is generally uncommon in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Drug-resistant Gonorrhea: An urgent threat to public health worldwide<\/a><\/p>\n

An infected person can infect others from 4 days before to 4 days after the rash appears. Even if the infected person has left the room, the infection can spread for up to 2 hours later. The incubation period (the time from being infected until the disease breaks out) is 7\u201321 days.<\/p>\n

The most common symptoms of measles are high fever, dry cough and red, irritated eyes. After a few days, a rash develops, often starting on the face and then spreading to the rest of the body.<\/p>\n

Vaccination protection is crucial. Vaccination against measles is included in the national childhood vaccination program and vaccination coverage is around 95 percent. Children receive good protection against measles after one dose of vaccine, and two doses of vaccine provide long-term protection. If you have had the disease, you have lifelong protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sweden Public Health Agency, or Folkhalsomyndigheten, reports the measles outbreak linked to the Urkult festival in Region…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-601528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601528","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=601528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}