Measles

Successful vaccination feasible in low-income countries

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 2nd, 2002

Results of a study in the May 4, 2002, issue of the Lancet highlight the success of a WHO-recommended measles elimination strategy in southern Africa. Authors of the study emphasize how such strategies can substantially reduce illness and death from measles, the most contagious disease known to man.

Globally, although national immunization programs are estimated to prevent 80 million cases and 4.5 million deaths due to measles yearly, it is estimated that more than 30 million cases and 0.9 million deaths still occur every year; around half of these deaths occur in Africa.

In southern Africa from 1996, 7 countries with a total population of...

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