{"id":32357,"date":"2019-02-08T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32357"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:23:23","slug":"measles-outbreak-in-the-philippines-kills-55-children-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32357","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak in the Philippines kills 55 children since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.1283185841\">\n<p>A measles outbreak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/philippines.html\">the Philippines<\/a>&#8216;s capital, Manila, is spreading.<\/p>\n<p>The health department reported a 550 percent increase in cases nationwide, with 55 deaths since January.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccination efforts have been hampered by a recent vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/corruption.html\">corruption<\/a> scandal in which children may have been given an unsafe dengue fever vaccine as part of a mass immunisation programme, weakening trust in health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A measles outbreak in the Philippines&#8217;s capital, Manila, is spreading. The health department reported a 550 percent increase in cases nationwide, with 55 deaths since January. Vaccination efforts have been hampered by a recent vaccine corruption scandal in which children may have been given an unsafe dengue fever vaccine as part of a mass immunisation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}