Children make up most of the 110,000 people estimated to have died of the virus in 2017, the UN body states.
On the same day the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed measles cases are at their highest since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, UNICEF announced that 21.1 million children had missed their first dose of the measles vaccine every year over the last eight years.
The U.S. topped a list of high-income countries where children were not treated with the first measles vaccine dose between 2010 to 2017, at 2,593,000 cases. It was followed by France at 608,000 and the U.K. with 527,000. The CDC stated on Thursday:"A significant factor contributing to the outbreaks in New York is misinformation in the communities about the safety of the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine. Some organizations are deliberately targeting these communities with inaccurate and misleading information about vaccines."
The measles vaccine works thanks to herd immunity, in which a population is protected from an infectious disease because the vast majority of people have been vaccinated against it. That not only means an individual won’t fall ill themselves, but is also less likely to pass it to the most vulnerable who can’t receive vaccines because their immune systems are too weak. Newborn babies and children with cancer fall into this category.
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