PARIS: Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children´s agency said Friday, including one of the world´s richest nations, France.Ninety-eight countries reported more cases of measles in 2018 compared with 2017, and the world body warned that conflict, complacency and the growing anti-vaccine movement threatened to undo decades of work to tame the disease.”This is a wakeup call. We have a safe, effective and inexpensive vaccine against a highly contagious disease, a vaccine that saved almost a million lives every year over the last two decades,” said Henrietta Fore, …read more
Source: The News International
