{"id":398752,"date":"2026-04-18T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:39:21","slug":"japan-on-track-to-log-highest-number-of-measles-cases-since-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398752\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan on track to log highest number of measles cases since COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is on pace to log its highest number of annual measles cases this year since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 236 patients confirmed by early April compared with the post-pandemic full-year high of 265 marked last year.<\/p>\n<p>About half of patients are age 10 to 29, and the Japan Pediatric Society is calling on people to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>People with measles experience symptoms similar to those of a cold about 10 days after infection, followed by a high fever and a rash. Almost all infected people without immunity develop symptoms, and the illness can lead to severe complications such as encephalitis and pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan is on pace to log its highest number of annual measles cases this year since the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46,13380,17866],"class_list":["post-398752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-measles","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398752","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=398752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}