{"id":306763,"date":"2026-02-23T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:51:09","slug":"israel-reports-16th-measles-death-in-6-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/306763\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel reports 16th measles death in 6-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Health reported yesterday on the death of a six-year-old boy from complications of measles, who was not vaccinated.<\/p>\n

This is the sixteenth measles fatality in Israel since the outbreak began last year. <\/p>\n

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The boy arrived at the hospital in critical condition, where after resuscitation efforts, doctors declared hinm dead.<\/p>\n

Of the other 15 deaths, most of the deceased were healthy infants and children with no underlying diseases who were not vaccinated against measles.<\/p>\n

It is recommended that all children be vaccinated at the age of one and at the age of six (as part of the routine vaccination program) in outbreak areas:<\/p>\n

Introduction of the second vaccine dose at the age of one and a half.<\/p>\n

Recommendation for an additional dose of vaccine for infants aged 6-11 months in outbreak areas and when traveling to places with an outbreak.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health recommends that those who are not vaccinated, as well as parents of infants who received one vaccine at the age of 6-11 months, avoid participating in multi-participant events in outbreak areas due to the risk of infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Health reported yesterday on the death of a six-year-old boy from complications of measles, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-306763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}