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GENEVA, Switzerland - Measles infections soared by a fifth last year to over 10 million cases globally, revealing alarming gaps in vaccine coverage, a study showed Thursday.Worldwide, there were an estimated 10.3 million measles cases in 2023, according to a joint publication by the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
All regions except the Americas were impacted, it said, with nearly half of all large and disruptive outbreaks occurring in the African region.The virus that can cause a rash, fever and flu-like symptoms but also particularly severe complications in young children is estimated to have killed 107,500 people in 2023, most of them under the age of five.This marks an eight-percent decrease from the previous year.
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