{"id":8361,"date":"2024-12-18T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:23:30","slug":"tiny-coffins-measles-is-killing-thousands-of-children-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/18\/tiny-coffins-measles-is-killing-thousands-of-children-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/18\/health\/measles-congo-vaccines.html\">NYT<\/a> Werra Maulu Botey could not bear to close his daughter\u2019s coffin. Waiting to bury her, he slid the rough wooden lid back, again and again, to adjust her small head and smooth the cloth that cradled it away from her cheeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olive died of measles, at the age of 5, the evening before. She was the first child to die that weekend in an emergency measles treatment center in the town of Bikoro, in the northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. The second was her cousin, a 1-year-old girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is sweeping through the children of Bikoro, as it does every couple of years, creeping, then flaring, across this vast country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is on the rise in other parts of the world, too \u2014 including in some communities in the United States \u2014 though the measles vaccine has been in use since 1963 and is believed to have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)00850-X\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saved more lives<\/a>\u00a0than any other childhood immunization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/18\/health\/measles-congo-vaccines.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"NTpQ  E nVnpWDcKWToH  o \">NTpQ  E nVnpWDcKWToH  o <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Werra Maulu Botey could not bear to close his daughter\u2019s coffin. Waiting to bury her, he slid the rough wooden lid back, again and again, to adjust her small head and smooth the cloth that cradled it away from her cheeks. Olive died of measles, at the age of 5, the evening before. She [&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-8361","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\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8362,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}