{"id":316962,"date":"2025-11-16T11:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=316962"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:14:33","slug":"measles-rubella-cases-up-37-percent-in-philippines-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=316962","title":{"rendered":"Measles-Rubella Cases Up 37 Percent In Philippines This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MANILA, Nov 16 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; The Philippines recorded 4,718 measles-rubella cases from Jan to mid-Nov this year, 37 percent higher than the 3,434 cases logged in the same period of 2024, the country&#8217;s Department of Health (DOH) said, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 73 percent of cases are unvaccinated and most of them are children aged five years and below, the DOH said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DOH raised concern over rising infections in crowded evacuation centres, following recent typhoons and earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Secretary, Teodoro Herbosa, said, the DOH has been deploying medical teams to evacuation centres, in disaster-hit areas, to administer measles-rubella vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles is a highly contagious, serious airborne disease, caused by a virus that can lead to severe complications and death, while rubella is a contagious viral infection, transmitted by airborne droplets that occurs most often in children and young adults, according to the World Health Organisation.&#8211; NNN-PNA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Nov 16 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; The Philippines recorded 4,718 measles-rubella cases from Jan to mid-Nov this year, 37 percent higher than the 3,434 cases logged in the same period of 2024, the country&#8217;s Department of Health (DOH) said, yesterday. Around 73 percent of cases are unvaccinated and most of them are children aged five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":316966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,322,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316965,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316962\/revisions\/316965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}