{"id":350224,"date":"2015-07-16T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T00:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=350224"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:56:29","slug":"first-measles-death-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/first-measles-death-in-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"First measles death in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">If a real pandemic starts the fanatical anti vaccination people will be the first to beg to get immunized&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>The death of a woman in Washington state in spring has been confirmed as the first US fatality from measles in 12 years, health authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the link was not spotted until a post-mortem examination because the woman lacked some of the common symptoms of measles, such as a rash.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is highly contagious, but it has been rarely fatal in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The death comes after an outbreak of measles at California&#8217;s Disneyland in 2014 that infected over 100 people.<\/p>\n<p>Although no one died from that outbreak, it sparked an intense debate across the US about mandatory vaccinations for schoolchildren, which some parents oppose.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the case in Washington state was not linked to that Disneyland incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33373466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10153446461934345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:\u00a0 If a real pandemic starts the fanatical anti vaccination people will be the first to beg to get immunized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":350230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}