{"id":276434,"date":"2019-05-19T08:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=692c74bf8b23dae73a6ec7995db78503"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:00","slug":"health-reports-said-ethiopian-children-remained-at-high-risk-in-a-long-measles-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276434","title":{"rendered":"Health reports said Ethiopian children remained at high risk in a long measles fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Vax Before Travel summarized that Ethiopia had faced measles outbreaks for years and that 2019 information again pointed to children as the group most at risk.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-602499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Health reports said Ethiopian children remained at high risk in a long measles fight\" \/>\n<p>Measles spreads fast where routine immunization coverage has gaps, displacement disrupts clinics, and nutrition is weak. For Horn readers the disease is not a distant textbook case. It is a recurring public-health emergency layered on conflict and drought.<\/p>\n<p>Outbreak notices rarely name every woreda, but they still mark when international health writers flagged Ethiopia\u2019s child risk in the same season as large internal displacement.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health archive, the 2019 measles note is a simple dated warning that children\u2019s vaccination status remained fragile under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaxbeforetravel.com\/ethiopian-children-remain-risk-measles-virus\">Vax Before Travel<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Confronting Its Measles Epidemic&nbsp;&nbsp;Vax Before TravelThe eastern African country of Ethiopia has been reporting measles outbreaks for many years, however, in 2019, new information indicates children are the ones &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/health-stpauls-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19UC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754824,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276434\/revisions\/754824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}