Measles -- Brazil
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tue [26 Jul 2016] declared Brazil free of measles, after no case of the disease was registered in the last year.
The eradication of measles is the conclusion of work spanning several years. Brazil saw no domestic cases of measles from 1985 to 2000, although it broke out in 2013 in the northeastern states of Pernambuco and Ceara, said Merceline Dalh-Regis, president of the WHO's international committee for the eradication of measles, in a
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