{"id":5070,"date":"2025-04-15T03:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2025-04-15T03:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:45:36","slug":"measles-continues-to-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Measles continues to spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5246069-measles-cases-700-rfk-jr-pressure\/\">The Hill<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5246069-measles-cases-700-rfk-jr-pressure\/\"> reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p> The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5213573-like-a-forest-fire-where-large-measles-outbreaks-will-occur-according-to-an-epidemiologist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">measles outbreak<\/a>\u00a0has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0<\/a>to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5156212-measles-outbreak-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rein in the deadly virus<\/a>.<br \/>Overall, 712 cases have been reported with new cases being discovered in Kansas, Ohio and Indiana, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>\u00a0(CDC). The outbreak has now spread to 25 states, per the data. <\/p>\n<p>The uptick comes after Kennedy suggested earlier this week at a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/video-clips\/5242685-watch-donald-trump-cabinet-meeting-global-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Cabinet meeting<\/a>\u00a0that cases were plateauing. <\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has a great interactive explainer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/12\/upshot\/measles-herd-immunity-explainer.html\">how to stop an outbreak of a contagious disease<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports: The\u00a0measles outbreak\u00a0has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0to\u00a0rein in the deadly virus.Overall, 712 cases have been reported with new cases being discovered in Kansas, Ohio and Indiana, according to the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0(CDC). The outbreak has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}