Measles -- Japan
While Japan saw 282 measles cases total, an outbreak in Okinawa that started in March 2018 accounted for more than one-third of the total annual cases (101). The outbreak began on 20 Mar 2018 and has been linked to an imported case from Taiwan. It had spread to Aichi and Kanagawa prefectures and Tokyo. The Okinawa outbreak was declared over in June 2018.
Japan has successfully eliminated endemic measles transmission and sustained this status since March 2015 through both high vaccination
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6266885&promed&0
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