The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the world’s measles epidemic and indicated that in ten countries, including Brazil, Ukraine and France, nearly three quarters of the increased number of people in 2018 registered.
A total of 98 countries have reported more measles cases in 2018 than in 2017, a step backwards from what has been achieved so far in combating this preventable but potentially deadly disease, the UNICEF said in a statement. “This is a call for awakening: We have a safe, effective and inexpensive vaccine against a highly contagious disease – a vaccine that saves the …read more
Source: Novinite
