{"id":9295,"date":"2025-04-23T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:51:52","slug":"americans-unsure-what-to-believe-about-the-measles-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/23\/americans-unsure-what-to-believe-about-the-measles-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans unsure what to believe about the measles vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/04\/23\/measles-vaccine-misinformation-poll\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Most Americans have encountered false claims about the measles vaccine, and many aren\u2019t sure what the truth is, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/other\/poll-finding\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-the-publics-views-on-measles-outbreaks-and-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"KFF poll, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KFF poll<\/a>&nbsp;released Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Misconceptions about measles, a highly contagious virus, and its vaccine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/04\/08\/trump-measles-vaccine-rfk-jr-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"abound, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abound<\/a>&nbsp;as cases continue&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"rising, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rising<\/a>&nbsp;across the United States, according to the poll. Prominent false claims suggest that there is a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine; that the vaccine is more dangerous than measles itself; and that vitamin A can prevent measles infections. More than half of surveyed adults expressed uncertainty about whether to believe the false statements, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/03\/04\/measles-outbreak-vitamin-a-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"amplified, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amplified<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proliferation of measles misinformation may have far-reaching implications, said Liz Hamel, director of public opinion and survey research at KFF, a health policy research organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/04\/23\/measles-vaccine-misinformation-poll\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Most Americans have encountered false claims about the measles vaccine, and many aren\u2019t sure what the truth is, according to a&nbsp;KFF poll&nbsp;released Wednesday. Misconceptions about measles, a highly contagious virus, and its vaccine&nbsp;abound&nbsp;as cases continue&nbsp;rising&nbsp;across the United States, according to the poll. Prominent false claims suggest that there is a link between autism [&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-9295","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\/9295","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=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9296,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}