{"id":2335,"date":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","slug":"measles-vaccines-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Is Mexico’s massive measles vaccine campaign a success? : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Mexico, a sweeping measles outbreak has triggered a sweeping response \u2014 a campaign to vaccinate 2.5 million people a week.<\/p>\n

In the capital, posters are plastered with QR codes for people to look up the nearest spot for vaccination.<\/p>\n

Nurses go door-to-door, and there are pop-up vaccine stations in bakeries, bus stations, cinemas, shopping malls, roundabouts \u2014- you name it. WhatsApp groups are pinged with waiting times at various centers.<\/p>\n

“People were very worried,” says Erica Briones Chavez, a nurse in a public medical center in Mexico City’s Chapultepec neighborhood. “For a couple of months we were doing two to three hundred vaccinations a day \u2014 mothers, fathers, teenagers and babies. Even the grandparents wanted to get vaccinated.” People were queueing up for two hours.<\/p>\n