The number of cases in the first quarter of 2019 rose to 112,163 against the same period last year, the organization said Monday
The number of measles cases worldwide nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 against the same period last year, the World Health Organization said on Monday, citing provisional data.
Fresh outbreaks have hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sudan, Thailand and Ukraine, “causing many deaths – mostly among young children”, the WHO said.It gave no figures for fatalities but noted it estimates that only one in 10 cases is reported globally.
U.S. federal health officials said on Monday the number of confirmed cases of measles in the United States this year jumped by nearly 20 per cent in the week ended April 11 – the country’s second-worst outbreak in nearly two decades.
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