{"id":4447,"date":"2024-05-16T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/reaching-unvaccinated-children-with-measles-vaccine\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:33:48","slug":"reaching-unvaccinated-children-with-measles-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/reaching-unvaccinated-children-with-measles-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"reaching unvaccinated children with measles vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Amid a rise in measles cases across the WHO European Region in the past year, and to prevent a large-scale outbreak in Serbia, a catch-up measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination campaign this year reached almost half of the missed-dose children in 12 selected municipalities in the country. The campaign to identify and vaccinate susceptible children was funded by the European Union (EU) and conducted by the Serbian Ministry of Health in collaboration with WHO Serbia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Targeting areas with the greatest need<\/h3>\n<p>Serbia\u2019s national coverage with the first dose of measles vaccine was 81% in 2022. However, WHO recommends at least 95% coverage&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/europe\/news\/item\/05-04-2024-strategic-outreach-in-serbia--reaching-unvaccinated-children-with-measles-vaccine\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a rise in measles cases across the WHO European Region in the past year, and to prevent a large-scale outbreak in Serbia, a catch-up measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination campaign this year reached almost half of the missed-dose children in 12 selected municipalities in the country. The campaign to identify and vaccinate susceptible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-serbia-el"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}