Disease Outbreak

United Nations confirms two cases of measles in tsunami-hit Sumatra

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 2nd, 2005

Health workers on Indonesia's tsunami-hit Sumatra Island have started vaccinating more than 1,000 people to head off the spread of the measles, after two unconnected cases of the virus were discovered.

The cases occurred in separate villages outside the regional capital of Banda Aceh, the area hit hardest by the December 26 earthquake and tsunami, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers just 1 case of measles an outbreak because it is so contagious.

"Two cases have been reported in two separate villages," Moira Connolly, who tracks outbreaks for WHO, said January 10, 2005.

The U.N. children's agency,...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-02-02)

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