Ore is back vengeance, 200,000 killed in 2019

A new report from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights a vague reality: Measles, a highly contagious but vaccine-preventable viral disease, infected at least 860,000 people worldwide in 2019 and killed more than 200,000 people. Which is about 50%. Mortality has increased since 2016. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 epidemic is likely to exacerbate this situation.

Following the invention of the measles vaccine in the 1960’s, there has been a sharp rise in annual cases. U.S. In 2000, measles was eradicated locally due to the establishment of a nationwide vaccination program for childhood diseases. In 2016, the case reached record levels globally, which is expected to be eradicated everywhere in the near future. But since those optimistic days, especially in Europe, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

While in Europe in 2001 there were only or, or more than 1,000 documented cases across Europe Next year More than 21,000 views. By 2019, progress has been so slow that the UK and many other countries have lost it Measles free Status from WHO. That same year, U.S. Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated during measles outbreaks in the country – stimulated by travelers returning from countries that did not have the disease –Almost led His condition is also being stripped. However, the 1,200+ cases reported in the USA in 2019 were higher than in the early 1990s.

Worldwide, according to a new CDC / WHO report Published On Thursday, 2019, 696969, 7070 documented cases of measles were reported, which is the highest annual number since the year 1 annual. Many cases of measles have not been reported, so the true number is high – somewhere around a million, the report said. More than 207,500 deaths were also estimated in 2019. The death toll is estimated at 2000, but has risen to 140,000 in 2018. Most measles deaths occur in children under five years of age.

This increase can be seen all over the world, but the spread was large and uncontrolled, especially in Africa and Europe. For the first time in 2019, Iran and Sri Lanka were the only two countries to eliminate local. And since there are important regional differences for the increase in cases, the underlying cause is the same.

The authors of the report wrote that, in all WHO regions, the root cause of the resurgence was failure to vaccinate, leading to a gap in immunity in both the recent and previous years, in younger and some older age groups.

Because measles is highly contagious, it takes a very high vaccination rate to prevent it from spreading to communities once it arrives – it is somewhere around 95 percent. The current vaccine used for measles, compound shot, which also protects against mumps and rubella, requires two doses, a more complex trend. Add to that the anti-vaccination movement, which is Contributed U.S. And towards the growing mistrust of vaccines elsewhere.

So far, measles cases worldwide have not been as high in 2020 as they were last year, possibly due in part to increased physical distance due to the Covid-19 epidemic. But many countries, including this one, have seen a decline in documentation of routine vaccinations this year America Experts at the WHO and elsewhere fear that the epidemic will hamper efforts to contain a wide array of infectious diseases, especially in already struggling areas, such as measles, HIV and tuberculosis. Measles is not the only disease that threatens to drown us, but it is one of the most preventable.

“Before there was a coronavirus crisis, the world was reeling from the measles crisis, and it hasn’t gone away,” said Henrietta Forre, UNICEF’s executive director. Statement Published by WHO. “When health systems are plagued by the Kovid-1p epidemic, we must not fight one deadly disease at the expense of another.”