A record high of 40 million children missed a vital dose of the measles vaccine in 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week. - via healthing_ca MmrVaccine healthnews healthing
A record high ofmissed a vital dose of the measles vaccine in 2021, the World Health Organization announced this week. The group called measles a “growing” threat and urged global action to prevent the spread of the illness in children.
“The paradox of the pandemic is that while vaccines against COVID-19 were developed in record time and deployed in the largest vaccination campaign in history, routine immunization programmes were badly disrupted, and millions of kids missed out on life-saving vaccinations against deadly diseases like measles,” WHO’s director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Getting immunization programmes back on track is absolutely critical.
The announcement comes on the heels of the measles-related deaths of more than 700 children in Zimbabwe. The pandemic and Christianity-based vaccine hesitancy were the most significant factors behind the deaths, reported in September. The disease has mostly killed children between the ages of six months and 15 years, Zimbabwe’s information minister
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