{"id":3943,"date":"2015-03-06T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2015-03-08T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:22:49","slug":"ongoing-measles-outbreak-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ongoing-measles-outbreak-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina\/","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing measles outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2943046.9833018472!2d17.67215075!3d43.9165389!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x134ba215c737a9d7%3A0x6df7e20343b7e90c!2sBosnia+and+Herzegovina!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sca!4v1425834594302\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in South-eastern Europe on the Balkan\u00a0Peninsula.<\/address>\n<p>The anti-vaccine movement is not only present in Canada and in the United States, but also in many other countries. Now, a measles epidemic is ongoing in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the anti-vaccine movement has contributed in part to it, a new study concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials have reported 3,804 measles cases since January 2014 in the small Balkan country which has a population of 3.8 million. Most people with the disease were either not vaccinated (70%) or of unknown vaccination status (20%).<\/p>\n<p>The authors conclude that \u201cdisruption of routine vaccination during the war and post-war periods\u201d, as well as the anti-vaccination movement contribute to parental hesitance and in turn to lower immunisation coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=21047\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em> Eurosurveillance\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 5<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Mirsada Hukic, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in South-eastern Europe on the Balkan\u00a0Peninsula. The anti-vaccine movement is not only present in Canada and in the United States, but also in many other countries. Now, a measles epidemic is ongoing in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the anti-vaccine movement has contributed in part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2390,2388,51,2387,53,476,2389],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anti-vaccine","tag-epidemic","tag-health","tag-measles","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-vaccine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-11B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}