{"id":10585,"date":"2026-11-13T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10585"},"modified":"2026-11-14T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:04:22","slug":"after-26-years-the-us-has-lost-its-measles-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/after-26-years-the-us-has-lost-its-measles-elimination-status\/","title":{"rendered":"After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered \u201celiminated\u201d as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 \u2013 but not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered \u201celiminated\u201d as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 \u2013 but not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/after-26-years-the-us-has-lost-its-measles-elimination-status\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After 26 years, the US has lost its measles elimination status<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[388,304,51,15],"class_list":["post-10585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-measles","tag-outbreaks","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10586,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10585\/revisions\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}