Health Alerts

In other measles reports, at least 20 children have died from measles complications in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe and hundreds more have been infected. A mass vaccination campaign is planned for Mutasa District. On a regional level, the WHO has called for routine immunisation programmes to be restored after a 400 percent year-on-year increase in measles cases was registered in the African region and outbreaks were confirmed in 20 countries from Jan-March this year. Read more