{"id":2443584,"date":"2019-04-30T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304957"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:27:38","slug":"experts-discuss-how-vulnerable-colorado-is-to-a-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/experts-discuss-how-vulnerable-colorado-is-to-a-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts discuss how vulnerable Colorado is to a measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/AP19119689598479-1024x609.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/AP19119689598479-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/AP19119689598479-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/04\/AP19119689598479-768x456.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A health care worker prepares syringes, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), for a child&#8217;s inoculations at the International Community Health Services in Seattle on Feb. 13, 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>AP\/Elaine Thompson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Measles outbreaks continue to pop up across the United States, with the number of confirmed cases of the once-eradicated disease now exceeding 700 in 22 states \u2014 but so far, only one person in Colorado has become ill with the highly contagious virus.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a Denver resident was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/16\/denver-measles-exposure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">placed in isolation and treated for the respiratory illness<\/a>&nbsp;after being diagnosed following a trip abroad, leading local health officials to issue a public warning about possible exposure to others.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the only confirmed case of measles in Colorado this year, but health experts said the state\u2019s notoriously low vaccination rate makes communities here vulnerable to a possible outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen it happen over and over in communities where the vaccination rate is low,\u201d said Dr. Jessica Cataldi, a pediatrician at Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado and vaccine researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Only 88.7 percent of the state\u2019s kindergarteners received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine during the 2017-18 school year, making it one of the lowest rates in the nation,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6740a3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/30\/colorado-measles-outbreak-vaccination-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read the full story from The Denver Post. (opens in a new tab)\">Read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/experts-discuss-how-vulnerable-colorado-is-to-a-measles-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A health care worker prepares syringes, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), for a child&#8217;s inoculations at the International Community Health Services in Seattle on Feb. 13, 2019.AP\/Elaine Thompson Measles outbreaks continue to pop up across the United States, with the number of confirmed cases of the once-eradicated disease now exceeding 700 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:21:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}