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Credit - Getty Images. L ast year, cases of measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease that's highly contagious—jumped by 79% around the world. Most of them were in children. That trend is ...
The CDC also issued a warning to health care providers about measles cases rising in the U.S. and globally and cautioned labs to take care when testing and analyzing samples from people with symptoms.
The H5N1 virus, or bird flu, that has spread through cattle herds and infected at least 55 people could erupt in a new pandemic, and other threats like mosquito-borne dengue fever are rising in ...
In February 2024, the World Health Organization said more than half of the world was at risk of a measles outbreak due to Covid-19 pandemic-related disruptions in that month. All the world regions have reported such outbreaks with the exception of the Americas, though these could still be expected to become hotspots in the future. Death rates ...
Measles is one of the most contagious of infectious diseases. [13] If not immunized, a person exposed to someone with measles has a 95% chance of becoming infected. During the early stage of an outbreak in an unvaccinated population, each infected person spreads the disease to an average of 12 to 18 other people. [14]
The outbreak lasted 25 weeks, included more than one strain of the measles virus and had 12-17 generations of spread. In 2008, Canada had more than 30 confirmed cases in Ontario in 2008, with more than half reported in Toronto. [48] In 2011, Quebec experienced the largest outbreak of measles in the Americas since 2002. [49]
Last year, there were 10.3 million cases of measles globally -- an increase of 20% from the previous year, according to a newly released report from the World Health Organization. Nearly 107,500 ...
In some countries, this outbreak has been fueled by lack of access to the measles vaccine, while in others it has been exacerbated by opposition to vaccination. [1] As one such example, the outbreak in the Philippines was attributed by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to lowered trust in the government's immunization drive due to a controversy regarding administration of a dengue vaccine. [15]