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Measles progress ‘set back a decade’ – WHO
Vaccinations, disease surveillance heavily disrupted by COVID-19
Measles vaccine campaigns must be reinstated, experts urge

Progress in the fight against measles has been set back more than a decade after 22 million babies missed their measles vaccinations last year, leading health bodies have warned.

Measles is one of the world’s most contagious human viruses, killing more than 60,000 people in 2020, but is almost entirely preventable.

Although cases of the disease fell more than in previous years, the risk of outbreaks is mounting as COVID-19 disrupts global healthcare, says a report by the WHO and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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