{"id":40530,"date":"2025-05-03T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/world-may-be-post-herd-immunity-to-measles-top-us-scientist-says\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:39:22","slug":"world-may-be-post-herd-immunity-to-measles-top-us-scientist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/world-may-be-post-herd-immunity-to-measles-top-us-scientist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"World may be \u2018post-herd immunity\u2019 to measles, top US scientist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of \u2018the most contagious human disease\u2019 grows<\/p>\n<p>A leading immunologist warned of a \u201cpost-herd-immunity world\u201d, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/mmr\">measles<\/a> outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/health\/measles-southwest-outbreak.html\">quarter-century<\/a>. Centered in west Texas, the measles outbreak has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/texas-measles-outbreak-cases\">killed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/06\/texas-measles-death-child\">two<\/a> unvaccinated children and one adult and spread to neighboring states including New Mexico and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/03\/measles-post-herd-immunity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of \u2018the most contagious human disease\u2019 grows A leading immunologist warned of a \u201cpost-herd-immunity world\u201d, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada. The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in &#8230; <a title=\"World may be \u2018post-herd immunity\u2019 to measles, top US scientist says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/world-may-be-post-herd-immunity-to-measles-top-us-scientist-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World may be \u2018post-herd immunity\u2019 to measles, top US scientist says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}