Pakistan: 2023 Measles

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Source: https://mmnews.tv/six-children-die-of-measles-in-kp/

Six children die of measles in KP
March 28, 2023


Six children died of measles and 656 cases were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) during the last three months.

According to the report of KP Health Department, five children died of measles in Dera Ismail Khan and one in Tank.

The report said that 105 children were confirmed with measles virus in Charsadda and 102 cases of measles were reported in Dera Ismail Khan.

According to the health department, 64 children in Peshawar, 46 in Kohat, 28 in North Waziristan and 37 in Bajaur were affected by the measles virus.

The health department said the spread of measles increases as the weather warms. Measles prevention campaign is also being conducted in the affected districts.

 

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Source: https://www.nation.com.pk/10-May-2023/two-children-die-of-measles

Two children die of meals
REPORTING STAFF
May 10, 2023
Regional, Quetta

KHAIRPUR - Two more children died and 10 others affected of measles in Goth Faiz Muhammad Rajpar of Khairpur, health department said on Tuesday. According to local residents, measles has seized the area claiming lives of two and affecting 10 others...​

 

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Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1800799/measles-kills-two-children-in-shangla

Measles kills two children in Shangla
Our Correspondent
Published December 26, 2023 Updated about 11 hours ago


SHANGLA: Measles killed two children in Dedal Kamach area of Martung tehsil here on Monday, a local health department official said.

Dr Mohammad Hussain, district coordinator of Expanded Programme on Immunisation, Shangla, said that the department had dispatched teams to the affected area for vaccination against the deadly disease.

He told this scribe that the department was doing its best to control the measles as EPI teams were actively vaccinating children in the area.

Meanwhile, Dr Ibadullah Khan, a local doctor, while confirming the deaths of two children, Mirza Ali, 4, and Mustashbira, 2, told Dawn that children in almost every house in the area were suffering from measles.

He said measles cases were being reported from parts of Dedal Kamach and its suburbs, which is a remote and backward area of Puran tehsil.​..