Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: The Lancet, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
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The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 24 April 2012
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60638-2
Measles: the burden of preventable deaths
Original Text
Walter A Orenstein, Alan R Hinman
Measles has been, and remains, a major killer of children around the world. Despite the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles caused an estimated 2?6 million deaths in a single year as recently as 1980. In The Lancet , Emily Simons and colleagues estimate that, after more than 45 years of measles vaccine availability, the disease caused nearly 140 000 deaths in 2010. Even in industrialised countries, complications, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, encephalitis, and subacute sclerosing ...
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-doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60638-2
Measles: the burden of preventable deaths
Original Text
Walter A Orenstein, Alan R Hinman
Measles has been, and remains, a major killer of children around the world. Despite the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles caused an estimated 2?6 million deaths in a single year as recently as 1980. In The Lancet , Emily Simons and colleagues estimate that, after more than 45 years of measles vaccine availability, the disease caused nearly 140 000 deaths in 2010. Even in industrialised countries, complications, including pneumonia, diarrhoea, encephalitis, and subacute sclerosing ...
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