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  • Cameroon: 2019 Measles

    Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/201..._138600553.htm

    Cameroon reports 14 deaths from measles epidemic
    Source: Xinhua| 2019-12-03 00:34:43|Editor: yan

    YAOUNDE, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon's Minister of Public Health Malachie Manaouda said on Monday 14 measles-related deaths were recorded in the country since January 2019.

    More than 90 percent of the victims were children. In total, 42 cases of measles have been reported since the start of the year, Manaouda told a press conference...



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    Source: https://www.voanews.com/africa/camer...asles-outbreak

    Cameroon Launches Vaccination Campaign to Contain Measles Outbreak
    By Moki Edwin Kindzeka
    December 05, 2019 09:26 AM

    YAOUNDE - Cameroon has organized a national vaccination campaign to stop a measles outbreak that has infected more than 3,000 people, especially children, this year. The most-affected area is the central African state's northern border with Nigeria and Chad, where 17 children have died this month. Health officials believe many more people are infected, since barely 30% of the population visits conventional health facilities...

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    • #3
      Source: https://www.voanews.com/africa/camer...ves-questioned

      Cameroon Measles Vaccination Team Attacked, Motives Questioned
      By Moki Edwin Kindzeka
      December 10, 2019 04:01 PM

      EBOLOWA, CAMEROON — Members of measles vaccination teams in southern Cameroon have been attacked and beaten by locals who say the serums triggered side effects that sent 12 children to local hospitals.

      Many rural Cameroonians distrust vaccination campaigns, which have been organized as part of a national initiative to stop a measles outbreak that has afflicted a number of children.

      Thirty-four-year-old Samuel Amougou, a vaccination team member in Cameroon's southern commercial town of Ebolowa, is still recovering from wounds he sustained from angry parents who oppose the vaccination campaign. He says Roman Catholic clergy transported him and five other vaccination team members to Ebolowa regional hospital after angry parents harassed them last Friday in front of a local government school...

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