{"id":11351,"date":"2026-01-28T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:47:15","slug":"6-european-countries-lose-measles-elimination-status-what-this-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/28\/6-european-countries-lose-measles-elimination-status-what-this-means\/","title":{"rendered":"6 European countries lose measles elimination status: What this means"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/uk-european-nations-lose-measles-elimination-status\">Medical News Today<\/a> The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the United Kingdom and other European countries have lost their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/37135\">measles<\/a>&nbsp;elimination status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This status change comes after a rise in infections across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOutbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases are threats to health security in Europe, alongside antimicrobial resistance and other emerging threats,\u201d a spokesperson for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/home?v=welcome\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"WHO\/EuropeTrusted Source, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WHO\/EuropeTrusted Source<\/a>&nbsp;told&nbsp;<em>Medical News Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPersistent immunity gaps led to a Region-wide resurgence in measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases in 2024 and a decrease in the number of countries that have achieved or sustained measles elimination status,\u201d they explained.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical News Today The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the United Kingdom and other European countries have lost their&nbsp;measles&nbsp;elimination status. This status change comes after a rise in infections across the continent. \u201cOutbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases are threats to health security in Europe, alongside antimicrobial resistance and other emerging threats,\u201d [&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-11351","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\/11351","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=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}