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World – Asia and the Pacific
Doctors and officials from the World Health Organization said the number of measles cases had almost quadrupled to 17,300.
11 months in November compared to last year's figures. Most of these cases occurred in conflict zones in the south of the country.
"We were on the verge of eradicating measles, but we are now seeing an increase in the number of cases as confidence in vaccines has dropped this year," said Lulu Bravo of the Philippine Vaccination Foundation at the University of California. 39, a meeting on immunization coverage. "It's disturbing, Filipinos have become ignorant about science." The decline in confidence has been attributed to political factors among other reasons.
Four children died of measles this year on the southern island of Mindanao. The World Health Organization (WHO) said only 7 percent of vaccinated children in conflict zones in the southern Philippines had been vaccinated against measles this year.
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