{"id":238656,"date":"2019-04-29T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238656"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:02:30","slug":"completely-avoidable-measles-outbreak-hits-25-year-high-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/completely-avoidable-measles-outbreak-hits-25-year-high-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Completely avoidable\u2019 measles outbreak hits 25-year high in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Anti-vax will surely rethink their position soon\u2026 except some fanatics\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>American health officials report that more than 700 people have been infected by measles this year, marking a 25-year high for the infectious disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that cases had been recorded in 22 states and were mostly affecting unvaccinated children.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the increase in cases is the largest since 1994, including 78 reported in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no deaths reported as as result of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suffering we are seeing today is completely avoidable,&#8221; US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Azar directed his comments at some parents who have chosen to leave their children unvaccinated due to the unscientific claim that vaccines cause illnesses such as autism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-48095761?fbclid=IwAR084MCnb0kIWBCHC-3v0KhnKedwwLx337dSWgKBG-qAsoy5FF3bG2mkR2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-48095761?fbclid=IwAR084MCnb0kIWBCHC-3v0KhnKedwwLx337dSWgKBG-qAsoy5FF3bG2mkR2w<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Anti-vax will surely rethink their position soon\u2026 except some fanatics\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}