{"id":6065,"date":"2024-03-12T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:57:58","slug":"the-return-of-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/12\/the-return-of-measles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Measles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Atlantic<\/a> Cases are creeping up in America, and not because of politics. Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid in Sacramento, California, may have exposed hundreds of people to the virus at the hospital. Three other people were diagnosed in Michigan, along with seven from the same elementary school in Florida. As of Thursday,\u00a017 states<\/a>\u00a0have reported cases to the CDC since the start of the year. (For comparison, that total was 19, plus the District of Columbia, for all of 2023, and just 6 for 2022.) \u201cWe\u2019ve got this pile of firewood,\u201d Matthew Ferrari, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State, told me, \u201cand the more outbreaks that keep happening, the more matches we\u2019re throwing at it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s holding the matchbook? There\u2019s an easy answer to who\u2019s at fault. One of the nation\u2019s political parties, and not the other,\u00a0turned against vaccines<\/a>\u00a0to some extent during the pandemic, leading to\u00a0voter disparities in death rates<\/a>. One party, and not the other, has a presumptive presidential candidate who threatens to\u00a0punish<\/a>\u00a0any school that infringes on parental rights by requiring immunizations. And one party, but not the other, appointed a\u00a0vaccine-skeptical surgeon general<\/a>\u00a0in Florida who recently sidestepped standard public-health advice in the middle of an outbreak. The message from Republicans, as\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s Alexandra Petri joked in a recent column, can sound like this:\u00a0\u201cWe want measles\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0the schools and books\u00a0out<\/em>\u00a0of them!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Atlantic Cases are creeping up in America, and not because of politics. Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid in Sacramento, California, may have exposed hundreds of people to the virus […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/6065","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=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}