{"id":9391,"date":"2025-05-07T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:44:41","slug":"states-loosen-vaccine-rules-even-as-measles-outbreak-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/states-loosen-vaccine-rules-even-as-measles-outbreak-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"States loosen vaccine rules \u2014 even as measles outbreak rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/07\/states-vaccine-measles-outbreak-00324133\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a longtime vaccine skeptic serving as the country\u2019s top health official, the movement is likely to make further inroads. The U.S. is on track to surpass 1,000 measles cases this year as the viral illness \u2014 once so rare that most young doctors don\u2019t recognize the telltale rash \u2014 makes an alarming comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak, which has spread to 29 states as of May 1 and claimed three lives, hasn\u2019t stopped some local lawmakers from considering or implementing policies that could make it even easier for parents to opt out of school vaccination requirements for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/07\/states-vaccine-measles-outbreak-00324133\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"s LOyWbsIkiJZKr iVFcxioGv \"><!-- s LOyWbsIkiJZKr iVFcxioGv  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico With a longtime vaccine skeptic serving as the country\u2019s top health official, the movement is likely to make further inroads. The U.S. is on track to surpass 1,000 measles cases this year as the viral illness \u2014 once so rare that most young doctors don\u2019t recognize the telltale rash \u2014 makes an alarming comeback. [&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":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/9391","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=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9392,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}