{"id":9453,"date":"2025-11-19T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:30:53","slug":"measles-outbreak-in-arizona-and-utah-could-spell-the-end-for-u-s-elimination-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/measles-outbreak-in-arizona-and-utah-could-spell-the-end-for-u-s-elimination-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah could spell the end for U.S. elimination status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-spreading-utah-arizona-outbreak-vaccines-rcna238757\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah<\/a> shows no sign of slowing, putting the United States dangerously close to losing its elimination status for the vaccine-preventable disease.<\/p>\n<p>With holiday travel and gatherings approaching, doctors worry that transmission could escalate. If measles continues to spread through Jan.&nbsp;20, that will mark a year of sustained transmission in the United States. At that point, the disease would no longer be considered eliminated and it would instead revert to being endemic, or constantly present.<\/p>\n<p>The backward step seems highly likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-spreading-utah-arizona-outbreak-vaccines-rcna238757\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah<\/a> shows no sign of slowing, putting the United States dangerously close to losing its elimination status for the vaccine-preventable disease.<\/p>\n<p>With holiday travel and gatherings approaching, doctors worry that transmission could escalate. If measles continues to spread through Jan.&nbsp;20, that will mark a year of sustained transmission in the United States. At that point, the disease would no longer be considered eliminated and it would instead revert to being endemic, or constantly present.<\/p>\n<p>The backward step seems highly likely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/measles-outbreak-in-arizona-and-utah-could-spell-the-end-for-u-s-elimination-status\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah could spell the end for U.S. 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":[579,388,51,581,15],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arizona","tag-measles","tag-united-states","tag-utah","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453","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=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}