Fletch wrote:MungoBrush wrote:Measles cases triple globally in 2019, says UN
The number of measles cases reported worldwide in the first three months of 2019 has tripled compared with the same time last year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The UN body said provisional data indicated a "a clear trend", with all regions of the world seeing outbreaks.
Africa had witnessed the most dramatic rise - up 700%.
Ukraine, Madagascar and India have been worst affected by the disease, with tens of thousands of reported cases per million people.
The UN says the disease is "entirely preventable" with the right vaccines, but global coverage of the first immunisation stage has "stalled" at 85%, "still short of the 95% needed to prevent outbreaks".
In an opinion piece for CNN, WHO heads Henrietta Fore and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world was "in the middle of a measles crisis" and that "the proliferation of confusing and contradictory information" about vaccines was partly to blame.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47940710
No doubt that some here will be advocating that we withold vaccines from those countries affected.
If it's stalled (stalled means been at the same point for some time) at 85%, why the sudden increase this year?
It reads like a sales drive from invested corporations to me.
Waa waa, we can't sell any more vaccines, please help us...
So are you saying that measles vaccines should be withheld from countries that are currently suffering from a measles outbreak?