{"id":145466,"date":"2024-11-02T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145466"},"modified":"2024-11-02T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T00:24:06","slug":"measles-raising-its-head-again-special-vaccination-drive-to-be-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/02\/measles-raising-its-head-again-special-vaccination-drive-to-be-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles raising its head again, special vaccination drive to be launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Though the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Sri Lanka as a country free of measles, the country has been hit by cases once again since 2023, prompting the health authorities to declare a special vaccination week from November 4 to 9, according to a press release from the Health Promotion Bureau of the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly emerged cases are mostly reported in the 20-30 age group. The press release said the disease is then transmitted to children, particular to infants below nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those in the age 20-30 will be vaccinated for measles and Rubella, and children aged between nine months and 19 years will be vaccinated against measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO announced in 2019 Sri Lanka has eliminated measles, interrupting transmission of the indigenous virus that causes the killer childhood disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Sri Lanka as a country free of measles, the country has been hit by cases once again since 2023, prompting the health authorities to declare a special vaccination week from November 4 to 9, according to a press release from the Health Promotion Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}