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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), measles in Europe and Central Asia have more than doubled between 2023 and 2024 because the vaccination rate has not recovered to the pre -infectious disease between 2023 and 2024.
The development of viral diseases caused children in the United States and the United Kingdom to die, and the high -income country’s vaccine hesitations threatened the difficult victory caused by mass immune programs.
UNICE, UNICEF, UNICEF, Europe, Europe and Central Asian directors, Regina de Dominicis, “In many ways, vaccinations were victims of success.
“Today’s generation has not witnessed the fatal impact of vaccine preventive diseases, which makes it easy to catch satisfactory and wrong information.”
According to Tuesday, the UN’s World Health Agency, the measles increased from 60,756 in 2023 to 148,974 in Europe in 53 countries in 53 countries, including Central Asian countries last year. UNICEF added that the incident is the highest since 1997.
Children in Liverpool, England, died after sickness. Bbc Reported On Sunday. Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital said last week that many “serious disrespectful” children were admitted to measles and urged people to be vaccinated.
Even if it is not fatal, measles can cause blindness and damaged organs.
Vaccine skepticist Robert F Kennedy’s installation as a US minister of health raised further concerns about the vaccination rate. Kennedy tried to question the safety of B about the hundred days cough, another revived in Europe and Central Asia.
Since the record began in 1980 in the WHO European region, the WHOOPING COUGH CASE has surged to the highest level, increasing to almost 300,000 people last year, 87,558 in 2023, and 6,345 in 2022.
Bacterial diseases can be particularly dangerous for babies and increase the risk of breathing, pneumonia and seizures.
Kennedy raised a wide range of alarms by attacking a hundred -day ping cough vaccine at the GAVI International Vaccine Alliance last month.
Health experts pointed out that they did not mention many research that supported safety while criticizing their words.
The WHO said that the proportion of children who were completely vaccinated for measles, pandemic and rubella (MMR) and hepatitis B decreased from 92 %in 2019, to 91 %last year, WHO. 95 %of the level of application is considered to generate so -called immunity to measles.
The range of diphtheria, tetanus and white day (DTP) and polio was 93 %, 2 percentage points lower than before the infection.
The increase in measles is considered a major indicator of a wider problem of disease prevention. Since the pathogen is very infectious, infections can represent patients who have been vaccinated for other diseases.
Dr. David Elliman, an honorary associate professor of children’s community health expert and university College London, said that patients’ concerns about vaccine access, inappropriate clinical infrastructure and safety are probably the main reason for stagnating or falling ratio.
Elliman said, “A well -trained medical specialist is more than the benefit of reassuring parents with certain evidence that the vaccine in use is effective.
