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Concerns As Measles Cases Soar To 400% In Africa This Year

Concerns As Measles Cases Soar To 400% In Africa This Year

April 29, 2022 12:12 am

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday raised the alarm that the continent of Africa is presently facing an explosion of preventable diseases owing to delays in vaccinating children, with the cases of measles for example jumping by over 400 percent.

Africa Daily News. New York reports that no fewer than twenty African countries reported outbreaks of measles in the first quarter of 2022, eight more than in the first three months of 2021.

According to statistics, the Africa region recorded nearly 17,500 cases of the highly contagious virus between January and March.

This scary statistics was made public yesterday …

Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Battles Measles Epidemic

December 6, 2019 3:50 pm

Samoan authorities warned Friday that anti-vaccine propaganda would not be tolerated, after a social media campaigner was arrested for opposing a mass immunisation drive aimed at containing the Pacific nation’s deadly measles epidemic.

At least 63 people, mostly children, have died since the outbreak began in mid-October, with the crisis blamed on so-called “anti-vaxxers” convincing parents that immunisations were dangerous.

Samoa was on Friday enduring its second day of a lockdown as government and aid workers spread out across the nation of 200,000 people to vaccinate as many as possible.

But Communications Minister Afamasaga Rico Tupai said anti-vaxxers spreading …

U.S. measles outbreak spreads to Idaho, Virginia

U.S. measles outbreak spreads to Idaho, Virginia

June 11, 2019 12:45 am

The United States’ worst measles outbreak in a quarter-century spread to Idaho and Virginia last week as public health authorities on Monday reported 41 new cases of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease.

The U.S. has recorded 1,022 cases of the diseases this year as of June 6, in an outbreak blamed on misinformation about vaccines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The 2019 outbreak, which has reached 28 states, is the worst since 1992, when 2,126 cases were recorded.

Federal health officials attribute this year’s outbreak to U.S. …

Measles emergency in New York

April 9, 2019 11:04 pm

A measles outbreak in Brooklyn, primarily among Orthodox Jewish children, prompted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday to declare a public health emergency, requiring unvaccinated people in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines

The city’s largest outbreak since 1991 of the once virtually eradicated disease has mainly been confined to the Orthodox Jewish community in the borough’s Williamsburg neighbourhood, with 285 cases confirmed since October, de Blasio said at a news conference.

That’s up sharply from only two reported cases in all of 2017.

“This is the epicentre of a measles outbreak that …

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