Hi, it\u2019s Jessica in Washington. A key meeting starts today that will decide measles elimination status for the Americas. More on that in a moment, but first …<\/p>\n
It was a proud moment for US health officials in 2000 when the World Health Organization declared that measles had been eliminated<\/a> from the nation. The achievement \u2014 meaning the US had seen no continuous spread of the disease for more than 12 months \u2014 followed a 1989 change in recommendations that students be given a second dose<\/a> of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, it\u2019s Jessica in Washington. A key meeting starts today that will decide measles elimination status for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28174,138,275,134,648,82430,111,139,69,39865,37296,640,2146,14920,4205,2988,9458],"class_list":["post-117289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-americas","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-industries","tag-kimberly-clark-corp","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pfizer-inc","tag-prognosis","tag-regulation","tag-south-carolina","tag-texas","tag-utah","tag-washington","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}