{"id":9898,"date":"2025-07-16T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:50:21","slug":"measles-rubella-and-polio-the-return-of-preventable-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/16\/measles-rubella-and-polio-the-return-of-preventable-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles, rubella and polio: The return of preventable diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5400981-measles-rubella-polio-return-preventable-diseases\/\">The Hill<\/a> With outbreaks of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4517298-measles-outbreak-us-status-elimination\/\">previously eradicated measles<\/a>&nbsp;leading the news for months, more epidemics may be in store for the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As vaccination rates&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/schoolvaxview\/data\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"among children, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">among children<\/a>&nbsp;continue&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/4816106-vaccine-skepticism-rising-vaccination-rates\/\">to plummet<\/a>, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious diseases to spread rampantly in the coming years and decades. Research published in the medical journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2833361\">JAMA<\/a>&nbsp;suggests a continued decline could lead to millions of infections from diseases currently considered under control or eradicated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill With outbreaks of&nbsp;previously eradicated measles&nbsp;leading the news for months, more epidemics may be in store for the U.S. As vaccination rates&nbsp;among children&nbsp;continue&nbsp;to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious diseases to spread rampantly in the coming years and decades. Research published in the medical journal&nbsp;JAMA&nbsp;suggests a continued decline could lead to [&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-9898","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\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}