Health Desk- 22 Nov
2019: Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of
Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all the provinces
in the country.
Close to a quarter of a million people have been infected
this year alone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the world's
largest and fastest-moving epidemic.
Measles in DR Congo has now killed more than twice the
number who have died of Ebola there in the last 15 months.
The Congolese government and the WHO launched an emergency
vaccination programme in September that aimed to inoculate more than 800,000
children.
But poor infrastructure, attacks on health centres and a
lack of access to routine healthcare have all hindered efforts to stop the
spread of the disease.
Four million children have been vaccinated, but experts warn
that this amounts to less than half of the total in the country - and not
enough vaccines are available.
The majority of those infected with measles in the country
are infants.
Courtesy: BBC Health
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