{"id":55,"date":"2009-01-07T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-01-09T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:41:59","slug":"measels-get-your-measels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/07\/measels-get-your-measels\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles!  Get your Measles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, some would have us believe, is one of the worst places in the world for measles.\u00a0 In 2006-7, there were 12000 cases in Europe, many of them in the UK, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(08)61849-8\/fulltext\">a study in <em>The Lancet<\/em><\/a> (subscription required) and <a href=\"http:\/\/newsvote.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/7813149.stm\">reported by the Beeb<\/a>.\u00a0 This has not a little to do with the MMR panic and its wake.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we should be so negative.\u00a0 Britain isn&#8217;t a <strong>bad<\/strong> place for measles &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the best.\u00a0 You&#8217;re far more likely to get it here than in many other places.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing what a small shift in perspective can do to a news story.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain, some would have us believe, is one of the worst places in the world for measles.\u00a0 In 2006-7, there were 12000 cases in Europe, many of them in the UK, according to a study in The Lancet (subscription required) and reported by the Beeb.\u00a0 This has not a little to do with the MMR [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/07\/measels-get-your-measels\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}