Ukraine is in imminent danger of experiencing the first polio epidemic Europe has seen for decades, health experts have revealed, warning that millions of children are at risk from a range of crippling or fatal infectious diseases, including measles, diphtheria and rubella.
The rate of protection against contagious disease in the country has dropped rapidly since 2008, when a 16-year-old boy died days after he was given a shot against measles and rubella, leading to a media storm.
Although the United Nations concluded that the death was unrelated to the vaccine, demand for vaccines fell dramatically to what the UN describes today …read more
Source: Newsweek
