{"id":18551,"date":"2019-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/u-s-measles-cases-already-top-last-years-total\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"u-s-measles-cases-already-top-last-years-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/u-s-measles-cases-already-top-last-years-total\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Measles Cases Already Top Last Year&#8217;s Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>387 reported cases in 15 states as of March 28<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, April 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The number of measles cases in the United States so far this year has already surpassed the total for last year.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 28, there had been 387 reported cases in 15 states, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Monday. Last year, there were 372 cases nationwide, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The number of cases so far this year is the highest since 2014, when there were a total of 667, and the second highest number since measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The high number of measles cases so far this year is due to outbreaks in a handful of states, including California, New York, and Washington, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/measles-outbreak-2019-exceed-2018-numbers-anti-vaccination\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_new\">More Information: CDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>387 reported cases in 15 states as of March 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}