{"id":11791,"date":"2026-04-01T19:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:49:57","slug":"theres-a-massive-measles-vaccine-campaign-in-mexico-is-the-public-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/theres-a-massive-measles-vaccine-campaign-in-mexico-is-the-public-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a massive measles vaccine campaign in Mexico. Is the public on board?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/28\/g-s1-115502\/measles-vaccines-mexico\">NPR<\/a>In Mexico, a sweeping measles outbreak has triggered a sweeping response \u2014 a campaign to vaccinate 2.5 million people a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the capital, posters are plastered with QR codes for people to look up the nearest spot for vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nurses go door-to-door, and there are pop-up vaccine stations in bakeries, bus stations, cinemas, shopping malls, roundabouts \u2014- you name it. WhatsApp groups are pinged with waiting times at various centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People were very worried,&#8221; says Erica Briones Chavez, a nurse in a public medical center in Mexico City&#8217;s Chapultepec neighborhood. &#8220;For a couple of months we were doing two to three hundred vaccinations a day \u2014 mothers, fathers, teenagers and babies. Even the grandparents wanted to get vaccinated.&#8221; People were queueing up for two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/28\/g-s1-115502\/measles-vaccines-mexico\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPRIn Mexico, a sweeping measles outbreak has triggered a sweeping response \u2014 a campaign to vaccinate 2.5 million people a week. In the capital, posters are plastered with QR codes for people to look up the nearest spot for vaccination. Nurses go door-to-door, and there are pop-up vaccine stations in bakeries, bus stations, cinemas, shopping [&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-11791","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\/11791","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=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11792,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}