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PAKISTAN: Measles takes toll on flood victims
The best way to prevent measles is immunization
DADU, 24 November 2010 (IRIN) - Kehkashan Bibi, 30, has just returned home with her one-year-old daughter. The child has a few red spots on her body and Kehkashan is afraid she may have measles.
The illness has already claimed 11 lives in Dadu district in the southern Sindh province and Kehkashan, who lives in a village near the town of Dadu, says she is very worried. ?She has a fever too and the midwife I took her to see is not certain what it is. We are now going to take her to the local clinic.? Midwives double as basic healthcare providers in many rural areas, where facilities are scarce...
PAKISTAN: Measles takes toll on flood victims
The best way to prevent measles is immunization
DADU, 24 November 2010 (IRIN) - Kehkashan Bibi, 30, has just returned home with her one-year-old daughter. The child has a few red spots on her body and Kehkashan is afraid she may have measles.
The illness has already claimed 11 lives in Dadu district in the southern Sindh province and Kehkashan, who lives in a village near the town of Dadu, says she is very worried. ?She has a fever too and the midwife I took her to see is not certain what it is. We are now going to take her to the local clinic.? Midwives double as basic healthcare providers in many rural areas, where facilities are scarce...