Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Health Organization (WHO) in Zimbabwe has confirmed that the country has more than 340 cases of measles and 22 people, mostly children under age 5, have died from the disease. The government puts the number of confirmed cases at 90. Those who died had not been vaccinated.
The WHO has called 2010 a “pivotal” year for reaching its goal of reducing mortalities from the disease by 90 percent from 2000 to 2010. Measles deaths worldwide fell by 78% between 2000 and 2008, from an estimated 733,000 in 2000 to 164,000 in 2008, the organization reports.
Links to other sites: AllAfrica, CNN, WHO measles programme
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 29 December 2009 at 18:54 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 29 December 2009.
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