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In Ukraine, in 2018, there were 54,000 cases of measles, including 16 deaths, a record in Europe, according to Ukrainian and international health authorities.
"Ukraine ranks first in Europe in terms of measles," the office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said in the country..
The organization also noted that the number is also a record for Ukraine since the independence of this former Soviet republic in 1991. The spread of the disease was widespread in 2006 to 43 thousand injured..
The high incidence of injuries started in Ukraine in 2017 due to poor vaccination.
In 2018, a total of 54,480 people were infected with measles, including 34,280 minors, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, which attributed this to the "anti-vaccination campaign"He said.
Sixteen of them, including 12 minors, died of the disease in 2018. In early January, a new death was reported..
The Lvov region (west) is the most vulnerable to the disease with 11,000 injuries recorded. Seven thousand of them were not vaccinated, the others only received one dose instead of two..
Authorities urge citizens to get a vaccine to limit the possibility of transmission.
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