Measles -- DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday [25 Aug 2020] declared the end of a 25-month outbreak of measles that claimed the lives of more than 7000 children aged under 5. The outbreak was countered by vaccination on a massive scale, in which millions of children and infants were immunised.
"For the past month, we are able to say that this epidemic has been eliminated from across our territory," health minister Eteni Longondo told a press conference. "We can say that measles (in the
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7719488&promed&0
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