{"id":6245,"date":"2024-04-02T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2024-04-02T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:47:11","slug":"englands-measles-outbreak-nears-10-year-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/04\/02\/englands-measles-outbreak-nears-10-year-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Measles Outbreak Nears 10 Year Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/2024\/04\/01\/englands-measles-outbreak-nears-10-year-peak#google_vignette\">Precision Vaccinations<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles outbreaks are an ongoing health risk worldwide, including in the United Kingdom (U.K.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s health agency recently confirmed a significant&nbsp;increase in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/measles-outbreaks\">measles cases<\/a>&nbsp;across England, primarily in the West Midlands, driven by cases in Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/measles-epidemiology-2023\/national-measles-standard-incident-measles-epidemiology-from-october-2023\">data<\/a>&nbsp;from October 2023: 868 laboratory-confirmed measles cases had been reported in England as of March 28, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were&nbsp;182 newly confirmed measles cases with a date of onset in the past four weeks (since February 26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest number of cases continue to be reported from the West Midlands (34%), followed by London (33%), North West (10%), East Midlands (8%), and East of England (6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Vanessa Saliba,\u00a0UKHSA\u00a0Consultant Epidemiologist, commented in a UKHSA press statement, &#8220;We are continuing to see measles cases in the West Midlands, with numbers in London increasing in recent weeks and smaller clusters in other regions.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This serves as a reminder of the importance of&nbsp;MMR&nbsp;vaccination.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It only takes one case to get into a community with low vaccination rates for measles to spread rapidly, especially in schools and nurseries. We know that hundreds of thousands of children around the country, particularly in some inner-city areas, are still not fully vaccinated and are at risk of serious illness or life-long complications.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Still, measles is completely preventable with vaccination.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 22, 2024, the U.S. CDC updated its global measles travel advisory, listing 49 countries. Measles spreads rapidly and may become a risk to travelers in places not included on the list above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/2024\/04\/01\/englands-measles-outbreak-nears-10-year-peak\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision Vaccinations Measles outbreaks are an ongoing health risk worldwide, including in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The U.K.&#8217;s health agency recently confirmed a significant&nbsp;increase in&nbsp;measles cases&nbsp;across England, primarily in the West Midlands, driven by cases in Birmingham. The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported&nbsp;data&nbsp;from October 2023: 868 laboratory-confirmed measles cases had been reported in England [&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-6245","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\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}