DR Congo Declares End To Deadly Measles Epidemic
August 25, 2020
2:02 pm
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday declared the end of a 25-month outbreak of measles that claimed the lives of more than 7,000 children aged under five.
The outbreak was countered by vaccination on a massive scale, in which millions of children and infants were immunised.
“For the past month, we are able to say that this epidemic has been eliminated from across our territory,” Health Minister Eteni Longondo told a press conference.
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“We can say that measles (in the DRC) no longer exists.”
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