Measles cases hit 23-year high last year, killing 200,000 as vaccination stalls, WHO says

Measles killed an estimated 207,500 people last year after a decade-long failure to reach optimal vaccination coverage, resulting in the highest number of cases for 23 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in a joint report on Thursday.  
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news