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World Health Organization: Increased incidence of measles in the world
The number of cases registered with measles has doubled to 229,000 last year, said Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO), noting that conflict zones, remote areas and areas poor were the main homes.
However, the UN organization estimated that fewer than a dozen cases had been reported to health authorities and that the actual number of the past year was over 2 million.
More than a third of the world's population came from Europe, where the total tripled to 8,296 people last year, according to data released last week by the Regional Office of the United States. WHO for Europe.
Ukraine, which suffers from a separatist conflict in the eastern regions of the country, constitutes a large part of European infections.
In Asia, the Philippines announced this week that at least 70 deaths, mostly children, had been caused by the measles outbreak.
World Health Organization officials said at a press conference that conflict zones and the resulting migratory flows were a major challenge for vaccination efforts, as well as for the areas in question. in poor and inaccessible countries, and called for more sustained efforts to immunize each child.
Measles remains a leading cause of death among young children around the world. The highly contagious disease is transmitted by coughing, sneezing, close personal contact or direct contact with infected secretions of the nose or throat.
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