{"id":9226,"date":"2025-04-16T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:01:17","slug":"measles-cases-linked-to-texas-outbreak-reach-561-with-20-new-infections-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/measles-cases-linked-to-texas-outbreak-reach-561-with-20-new-infections-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles cases linked to Texas outbreak reach 561, with 20 new infections confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-leaky-claims\/83099634007\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>&nbsp;said the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2025\/04\/14\/what-is-the-mmr-vaccine\/82652187007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"measles vaccine, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles vaccine<\/a>&nbsp;is &#8220;leaky&#8221; because its effectiveness wanes over time, something medical experts dispute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/04\/10\/rfk-trump-autism-cause\/83028824007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"oversees the nation's federal health agencies, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oversees the nation&#8217;s federal health agencies<\/a>, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doing a &#8220;very good job&#8221; of controlling the measles outbreak that has infected&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\">more than 700 Americans in 25 states<\/a>&nbsp;as of April 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Kennedy suggested the vaccine effectiveness wanes at a rate of nearly 5% a year \u2013 an assertion not backed by scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/04\/15\/rfk-jr-measles-vaccine-leaky-claims\/83099634007\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" bCLQ  ZbR uU u\"><!--  bCLQ  ZbR uU u --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Health and Human Services Secretary&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&nbsp;said the&nbsp;measles vaccine&nbsp;is &#8220;leaky&#8221; because its effectiveness wanes over time, something medical experts dispute. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who now&nbsp;oversees the nation&#8217;s federal health agencies, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is doing a &#8220;very good job&#8221; of controlling the measles outbreak that has [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"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\/9226","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=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9227,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}