{"id":9206,"date":"2025-04-15T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9206"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:11:13","slug":"vaccine-expert-worries-child-measles-deaths-are-being-normalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/15\/vaccine-expert-worries-child-measles-deaths-are-being-normalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being &#8216;normalized&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/14\/1244690933\/vaccine-expert-worries-child-measles-deaths-are-being-normalized\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It&#8217;s also extremely preventable. There&#8217;s a vaccine. It&#8217;s highly effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measles deaths rarer still. But the U.S. has now seen more than<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/08\/nx-s1-5342706\/texas-measles-outbreak-vaccine-seminole-gaines\">&nbsp;700 measles cases this year<\/a>, and 3 deaths so far with active outbreaks across six states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal response is under scrutiny because Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has made a career spreading false information about vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/14\/1244690933\/vaccine-expert-worries-child-measles-deaths-are-being-normalized\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"myZ   mcO fQ cvoSiYZsvclI\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It&#8217;s also extremely preventable. There&#8217;s a vaccine. It&#8217;s highly effective. For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measles deaths rarer still. But the U.S. has now seen more than&nbsp;700 measles cases this year, and 3 deaths so far with active outbreaks across [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-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\/9206","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=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9207,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions\/9207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}