{"id":24920,"date":"2011-03-17T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/17\/the-measles-vaccine-is-safe-an\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:35:44","slug":"the-measles-vaccine-is-safe-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/the-measles-vaccine-is-safe-an\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measles Vaccine is Safe and Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we speak, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2011\/03\/17\/3-more-cases-of-measles-in-hennepin-co\/\">several children lie gravely ill in Minneapolis<\/a>, struck down by a preventable but sometimes fatal childhood disease.<\/p>\n<p>One of the children is an infant who was too young to have been vaccinated, but caught the disease, apparently, from someone old enough to be vaccinated but who was not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Get your children vaccinated.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn about measles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.state.mn.us\/divs\/idepc\/diseases\/measles\/basics.html\">here<\/a>.  Read about vaccination <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/vaccination_vs_disease_which_i.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we speak, several children lie gravely ill in Minneapolis, struck down by a preventable but sometimes fatal childhood disease. One of the children is an infant who was too young to have been vaccinated, but caught the disease, apparently, from someone old enough to be vaccinated but who was not. Get your children vaccinated. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/the-measles-vaccine-is-safe-an\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Measles Vaccine is Safe and Effective<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6tW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}