More than 140,000 people around the world died of measles last year, most of them children under the age of 5, according to a new report. This year is shaping up to be even worse.
advised the public to hang red flags outside their homes to indicate that they have an unvaccinated family member living there. The flags appear to be a twist on a disease-control practice dating back to the Middle Ages, when people marked homes and businesses affected by the Black Plague.
A red flags hangs outside homes of residents who have not been vaccinated in Apia, Samoa, Dec. 5, 2019. Streets were eerily quiet as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed scores of people.In Samoa, the flags are intended to make it easier for health workers who are going door-to-door and vaccinating a community in the throes of a measles outbreak. At last count, 62 people have died, on an island nation of 200,000 residents.
"In other words, we're backsliding," warned Dr. Kate O'Brien, director of immunization, vaccines and biologicals at WHO. In 2018, Albania, Czechia, Greece and the United Kingdom, lost their coveted measles elimination status, meaning they've had continuous measles transmissions for more than a year after previously declaring the disease eliminated. The United States, which this year logged the highest number of measles cases in more than two decades, barely clung to its own status.
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