{"id":7765,"date":"2026-03-07T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:36:59","slug":"we-almost-lost-you-in-the-night-the-life-threatening-rise-of-measles-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/07\/we-almost-lost-you-in-the-night-the-life-threatening-rise-of-measles-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We almost lost you in the night\u2019 &#8211; the life-threatening rise of measles in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK has seen a dangerous resurgence of measles, leading the World Health Organization to strip the country of its &#8220;measles-free&#8221; status. This escalation is driven by a steady decline in MMR vaccination rates, which have fallen below the 95% threshold required for herd immunity. Recent outbreaks in 2025, particularly in London, have primarily affected unvaccinated children under ten. Experts attribute the crisis to a combination of post-pandemic disruption, growing vaccine hesitancy, online misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 15, 2026. <strong>Summary:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/15\/life-threatening-rise-of-measles-in-the-uk\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has seen a dangerous resurgence of measles, leading the World Health Organization to strip the country of its &#8220;measles-free&#8221; status. This escalation is driven by a steady decline in MMR vaccination rates, which have fallen below the 95% threshold required for herd immunity. Recent outbreaks in 2025, particularly in London, have primarily affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7984,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/7984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}