{"id":241930,"date":"2025-10-21T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:17:08","slug":"mayo-measles-case-brings-minnesotas-total-to-21-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241930\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo measles case brings Minnesota\u2019s total to 21 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Measles had diminished in Minnesota, where only three cases were reported from 2003 through 2009, according to annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/reportable\/dcn\/archive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/diseases\/reportable\/dcn\/archive.html\">state infectious disease summaries<\/a>. Most cases were among foreign travelers and unvaccinated children brought to the U.S. for adoption. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">That trend has changed. Fifteen of Minnesota\u2019s cases this year involved person-to-person transmission within the U.S., along with 57 of the 70 cases reported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Minnesota once had one of the best measles vaccination rates of any U.S. state for children entering kindergarten. But that rate has declined from a peak of 94% to 87% at the start of the 2022-23 school year, which was below the national average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Skepticism over the COVID-19 vaccine, which was created and tested in record time during the pandemic, has sewed broader doubt about pediatric vaccines in general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">President Donald Trump appointed a health secretary this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long questioned the safety of the measles vaccine, contradicting studies showing it reasonably safe and effective. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends two doses by age 6 of the measles-mumps-rubella combination vaccine, which is considered 97% effective at preventing measles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Measles had diminished in Minnesota, where only three cases were reported from 2003 through 2009, according to annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-241930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}