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Measles affects about 20 million people a year, [3] primarily in the developing areas of Africa and Asia. [7] It is one of the leading vaccine-preventable disease causes of death. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 1980, 2.6 million people died from measles, [ 7 ] and in 1990, 545,000 died due to the disease; by 2014, global vaccination programs had reduced the ...
There were large or disruptive outbreaks in 37 countries last year, the majority in Africa, compared to 22 in 2021. ... There was a “staggering” annual rise in measles cases and deaths in 2022 ...
African child with measles. In 2019, a measles epidemic broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The epidemic started in early 2019 in the southeast corner of the DRC and then spread to all provinces. [1] [2] By June 2019 the epidemic was reported to have exceeded the death toll of the concurrent Ebola epidemic. [3]
As a result, global measles deaths have dropped by 48% from 871,000 in 1999 to an estimated 454,000 in 2004 thanks to improvements in routine and supplementary immunization activities. The largest reduction occurred in Africa, the region with the highest burden of the disease, where estimated measles cases and deaths dropped by 60%. [2]
Measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year and cases rose after vaccination levels dramatically dropped during the pandemic, leading health agencies said Thursday. The highly ...
Last year, there were 10.3 million cases of measles globally -- an increase of 20% from the previous year, according to a newly released report from the World Health Organization. Nearly 107,500 ...
By 2020, South Africa eliminated measles outbreaks as there was less than one case per million citizens in the population in 2015, 2016, and 2020. [ 39 ] An outbreak started in September 2022, [ 40 ] the strain being genotype D8 - similar to the 2022 outbreak strain in Zimbabwe. [ 41 ]
There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease, the World ...