{"id":25261,"date":"2019-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/no-new-u-s-measles-cases-reported-last-week\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:10:06","slug":"no-new-u-s-measles-cases-reported-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/no-new-u-s-measles-cases-reported-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"No New U.S. Measles Cases Reported Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Measles outbreaks are usually said to be over after 42 days without a new infection<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The measles outbreak that has spread throughout the United States may be winding down as no new cases were reported last week, health officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This outbreak, the worst measles epidemic in 27 years, saw the majority of cases in New York&#8217;s Orthodox Jewish communities, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported. The disease was carried to the United States by travelers infected abroad and spread rapidly to those who were not vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Between spring and summer, more than 1,200 cases were reported, according to the <i>AP<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Measles outbreaks are usually said to be over after 42 days without a new infection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d252fa8882fd4d8299dc688f46ab701e\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: CDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measles outbreaks are usually said to be over after 42 days without a new infection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-25261","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\/25261","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=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}