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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Chad: Measles Spreading in Chad Amid Weak Vaccination Coverage
19 May 2014
Dakar/N'djamena ? A measles outbreak that is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa is showing no sign of let-up as vaccine campaigners struggle to reach all at-risk children.
Some 34,105 cases have been reported since the beginning of 2014 across Chad, Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and CAR, with 12,108 of them in DRC, 8,221 in Nigeria and 4,968 in Guinea.
Cases in Chad have risen since January 2014, with 7,105 registered as of 5th May, and nine reported deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. NGO M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) says 70 percent of reported cases are of children under age five...
...Most reported cases in Chad - 3,750 by the end of April - have been in the four health districts covering N'djamena and its outskirts. Some 33 of the country's 77 health districts have reported cases thus far...
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Chad: Measles Spreading in Chad Amid Weak Vaccination Coverage
19 May 2014
Dakar/N'djamena ? A measles outbreak that is spreading across sub-Saharan Africa is showing no sign of let-up as vaccine campaigners struggle to reach all at-risk children.
Some 34,105 cases have been reported since the beginning of 2014 across Chad, Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and CAR, with 12,108 of them in DRC, 8,221 in Nigeria and 4,968 in Guinea.
Cases in Chad have risen since January 2014, with 7,105 registered as of 5th May, and nine reported deaths, according to the Ministry of Health. NGO M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) says 70 percent of reported cases are of children under age five...
...Most reported cases in Chad - 3,750 by the end of April - have been in the four health districts covering N'djamena and its outskirts. Some 33 of the country's 77 health districts have reported cases thus far...