{"id":1019775,"date":"2026-06-11T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1019775\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:59:18","slug":"two-children-die-from-measles-as-more-cases-confirmed-in-london-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1019775\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children die from measles as more cases confirmed in London this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cold-like symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first symptoms of measles include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a high temperature <\/li>\n<li>a runny or blocked nose <\/li>\n<li>sneezing <\/li>\n<li>a cough <\/li>\n<li>red, sore, watery eyes <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spots in the mouth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Small white spots may appear inside the cheeks and on the back of the lips a few days later. These spots usually last a few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The measles rash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rash usually appears a few days after the cold-like symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The rash starts on the face and behind the ears before spreading to the rest of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The spots of the measles rash are sometimes raised and join together to form blotchy patches. They&#8217;re not usually itchy.<\/p>\n<p>The rash looks brown or red on white skin. It may be harder to see on brown and black skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cold-like symptoms The first symptoms of measles include: a high temperature a runny or blocked nose sneezing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,1819,16,15,7858],"class_list":["post-1019775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-measles","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-midlands"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}