Measles is one of the most contagious viruses known and still kills more than 60,000 people a year, mostly young children
The global threat of measles has become worse after 22 million babies missed their vaccinations because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Wednesday.
. But it killed more than a million a year as recently as 2000.Biden signs executive order adding measles to list of quarantinable diseases after outbreak among US-bound Afghan refugeesVaccination campaigns turned that around, but it doesn't take much to threaten any progress.The CDC said Wednesday that reported measles cases fell in 2020 after a global resurgence from 2017-2019. The agency doesn't necessarily think that's good news.
"Even before the pandemic, we were seeing how even small pockets of low measles immunization coverage could fuel unprecedented outbreaks, including in countries where the disease had been considered eradicated. And now, COVID-19 is creating widening gaps in coverage at a pace we haven't seen in decades," Ephrem Tekle Lemango, UNICEF's associate director for immunization, said in a statement.
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