{"id":11256,"date":"2026-01-21T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2026-01-21T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:47:57","slug":"senior-cdc-official-loss-of-measles-elimination-status-in-u-s-would-be-cost-of-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/21\/senior-cdc-official-loss-of-measles-elimination-status-in-u-s-would-be-cost-of-doing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be \u2018cost of doing business\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/20\/cdc-measles-briefing-lost-elimination-status-cost-of-doing-business\/\">STAT<\/a> With measles transmission in the United States at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/07\/09\/measles-america-breaks-33-year-record-anti-vaccine-sentiment-key-factor-behind-outbreaks\/\">levels that haven\u2019t been seen in decades<\/a>, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would not view the loss of the country\u2019s measles elimination status as a significant event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot really,\u201d said Ralph Abraham, a physician who formerly served as Louisiana\u2019s surgeon general. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s just the cost of doing business, with our borders being somewhat porous [and] global and international travel.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"LRuFh vwzS Rl\">LRuFh vwzS Rl<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT With measles transmission in the United States at&nbsp;levels that haven\u2019t been seen in decades, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would not view the loss of the country\u2019s measles elimination status as a significant event. \u201cNot really,\u201d said Ralph Abraham, a physician who formerly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11257,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}