{"id":9676,"date":"2025-06-11T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:30:47","slug":"as-measles-spreads-across-the-americas-outbreaks-in-mexico-and-canada-have-also-turned-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/11\/as-measles-spreads-across-the-americas-outbreaks-in-mexico-and-canada-have-also-turned-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"As measles spreads across the Americas, outbreaks in Mexico and Canada have also turned deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/06\/health\/measles-deaths-canada-mexico\">CNN<\/a>  As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also experiencing significant outbreaks \u2013 all of which have been linked to at least one death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, the chief medical officer of health of the Canadian province Ontario announced that an infant who was born prematurely with a measles infection had died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe infant contracted the virus before birth from their mother, who had not received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine,\u201d Dr. Kieran Moore said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/statement\/1006004\/statement-from-the-chief-medical-officer-of-health\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"statement, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWhile measles may have been a contributing factor in both the premature birth and death, the infant also faced other serious medical complications unrelated to the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also experiencing significant outbreaks \u2013 all of which have been linked to at least one death. On Thursday, the chief medical officer of health of the Canadian province Ontario announced that an infant who was born prematurely with [&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-9676","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\/9676","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=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9677,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}