{"id":403046,"date":"2026-04-21T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/403046\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:54:08","slug":"europes-measles-surge-shows-signs-of-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/403046\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s measles surge shows signs of easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP_vaccine.jpg\" alt=\"Europe\u2019s measles surge shows signs of easing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP_vaccine-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[AP]<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s measles outbreak is showing signs of abating, though health officials warn the improvement could reverse at any time.<\/p>\n<p>In February, only 11 of 26 reporting countries logged new cases, with 139 total \u2013 the majority in Italy (63), Spain (36) and France (16). Greece has recorded no measles cases since July 2025. Between March 2025 and February 2026, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control recorded 4,623 cases across the continent, concentrated in Romania, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The ECDC attributes the outbreak to vaccination gaps, warning that public acceptance of vaccines is declining across the EU due to \u201cvaccine fatigue\u201d and misinformation \u2013trends amplified since the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, all EU countries now recommend HPV vaccination for both boys and girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[AP] Europe\u2019s measles outbreak is showing signs of abating, though health officials warn the improvement could reverse at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,12401,46,5087],"class_list":{"0":"post-403046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-in-depth","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-society"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403046","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=403046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}