Just 10 countries were responsible for three-quarters of a global surge in measles cases last year, the UN children’s agency said on Friday, including one of the world’s richest nations, France.
Ninety-eight countries reported more cases of measles in 2018 compared with 2017, and the world body warned that conflict, complacency and the growing anti-vaccine movement threatened to undo decades of work to tame the disease.
But the World Health Organization last year said cases worldwide had soared nearly 50 per cent in 2018, killing around 136,000 people. Taken together, the ten nations accounting for 75 percent of the increase from 2017 to 2018 account for only a tenth of the global population. The resurgence of the disease in some countries has been linked to medically baseless claims linking the measles vaccine to autism, which have been spread in part on social media by members of the so-called “anti-vax” movement.
“Measles may be the disease, but all too often the real infection is misinformation, mistrust and complacency.”
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