{"id":15326,"date":"2025-12-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-reminder-of-measles-real-danger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:33:50","slug":"a-reminder-of-measles-real-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-reminder-of-measles-real-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder of measles\u2019 real danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The little daughter of Roald Dahl, author of \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d and other books, once caught the measles. Just as she seemed to be getting better, the virus entered her spinal cord and brain.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Dahl watched in helpless horror as she died, painfully convulsing.<\/p>\n<p>Many years later, a vaccine for measles was developed. Measles can be fatal. Please be sure your precious children are protected from this possible killer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constance Fox, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-a9f73197079ccaa9979d1b1d86a8f139\">Mancos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little daughter of Roald Dahl, author of \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d and other books, once caught the measles. Just as she seemed to be getting better, the virus entered her spinal cord and brain. Poor Dahl watched in helpless horror as she died, painfully convulsing. Many years later, a vaccine for measles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19599,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15326\/revisions\/19599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15326"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}