The increase in measles incidence in recent years in various countries around the world may threaten many years of international efforts to completely eradicate this disease. It may also lead to the fact that in the period 2010-2012, up to 500 people will die annually. people from measles.
WHO’s immunization and immunization department coordinator Peter Strebel said at a news conference in Geneva that there is no progress in the fight against one of the most contagious diseases and that measles is rapidly returning.
He reported that from the beginning of 2009 until now, the emergence of new measles force has been found in thirty African countries, in the Asian region (Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam), as well as in Bulgaria and, to a lesser extent, in the United Kingdom.
During the Geneva session of the World Health Assembly, all 193 WHO member states agreed to increase to 90%. by 2015 the percentage of people covered by measles vaccination campaigns, which should reduce measles-related mortality by 95% compared to 2000 (PAP)