More than 115k cases on the island.
Measles kills thousands of Native Americans in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Late last month WHO started a third mass measles vaccination campaign in Madagascar with the overall goal of reaching 7.2 million children aged 6 months to 9 years.
“But immunization is not the only strategy for the response to this epidemic. We still need resources for care, monitoring and social mobilization,” said Sodjinou, the WHO epidemiologist.
From the CDC:
From January 1 to April 4, 2019, 465** individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 19 states. This is the second-greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since measles was eliminated in 2000.
The states that have reported cases to CDC are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
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Measles Cases Are Still Rising in the U.S. But They're Even Higher Globally @
The number of measles cases reported around the world has roughly tripled since last year, according to preliminary data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
More than 112,000 measles cases in 170 countries have been reported to the WHO so far this year. By contrast, about 28,000 measles cases in 163 countries were reported at this time last year, the WHO says. There are likely many more cases that have gone unreported, the WHO says, but the data proviMeasles Cases Are Still Rising in the U.S. But They're Even Higher Globallydes a good sense of global disease trends.
