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Europe: The number of recorded measles cases quadrupled, to 21,315 in 2017 from 5,273 in 2016 with 35 deaths

February 25th, 2018

NY Times

  • The biggest outbreak last year was in Romania, where there were 5,562 cases and which accounted for most of the deaths. The country’s large rural Roma population — also known as Gypsies — often do not vaccinate their children and may not take them to hospitals promptly when they fall ill.
  • The second biggest outbreak was in Italy, with 5,006 cases and three deaths; 88 percent of those cases were in people never vaccinated
  • Ukraine had 4,767 cases of measles in 2017.
  • Other countries reporting outbreaks of up to 1,000 cases were Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Russia and Tajikistan.

 

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