{"id":16921,"date":"2026-09-11T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:50:08","slug":"measles-and-other-diseases-constantly-breaking-out-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16921","title":{"rendered":"Measles and other diseases breaking out in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/ORHA\/bulletins\/4206a13\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/ORHA\/bulletins\/4206a13\">There seems to be another outbreak of measles in the Portland metro area<\/a> &#8211; something that seems to be becoming a weekly occurrence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another sad development by one of the most &#8216;progressive&#8217; states in the country: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\">outbreaks of measles<\/a>. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oha\/erd\/pages\/vaccination-rates-for-oregon-students-reach-new-low-nonmedical-exemptions-at-new-high-05.28.2026.aspx\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oha\/erd\/pages\/vaccination-rates-for-oregon-students-reach-new-low-nonmedical-exemptions-at-new-high-05.28.2026.aspx\">more than one in three (36%) Oregon schools report MMR vaccination rates under 93%<\/a> and are therefore at high risk of a measles outbreak. A population must have 95% vaccination rate for herd immunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be another outbreak of measles in the Portland metro area &#8211; something that seems to be becoming a weekly occurrence. Another sad development by one of the most &#8216;progressive&#8217; states in the country: outbreaks of measles. Currently, more than one in three (36%) Oregon schools report MMR vaccination rates under 93% and are therefore at high risk of a measles outbreak. A population must have 95% vaccination rate for herd immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4oV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}