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Highest measles cases reported last year in 23 years

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
November 14, 2020

GENEVA (APP): The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that measles killed an estimated 207,500 people worldwide last year, the highest number of cases in 23 years.

US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in a joint report said the death toll in 2019 was 50 percent higher than a historic low reached in 2016, and all WHO regions saw an increase in cases, adding up to a global total of 869,770.

This year there have been fewer cases, but the COVID-19 pandemic has further set back vaccination efforts, with more than 94 million people at risk of missing measles vaccines in 26 countries that have paused their vaccination campaigns, including many countries with ongoing outbreaks.

“Before there was a coronavirus crisis, the world was grappling with a measles crisis, and it has not gone away”, Henrietta Fore, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, said in a statement.

Read more: Lives at risk from surge in measles: WHO

“While health systems are strained by the COVID-19 pandemic, we must not allow our fight against one deadly disease to come at the expense of our fight against another.”

Measles is entirely preventable, but success requires 95 percent of children to be vaccinated on time with two doses of measles-containing vaccines (MCV1 and MCV2).

MCV1 coverage has been stagnant globally for more than a decade at between 84 and 85 percent, while MCV2 coverage has been steadily increasing but is still only at 71 percent.

Natasha Crowcroft, senior technical advisor on measles and rubella at the WHO, said that the good news was that measles vaccinations had saved more than 25.5 million lives globally since 2000.

However, the low vaccine coverage meant the number of unprotected children was growing every year. “The big issue is not actually large holes in coverage, it’s the stalling in coverage”, Dr. Crowcroft said.  

Last week UNICEF and WHO issued a joint call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics, calling for an additional $255 million over the next three years to address dangerous measles immunity gaps in the 45 countries at the highest risk of an imminent outbreak. 

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