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Measles continues to ravage Isles as 262 contract disease
Friday, 09 September 2011 22:38
By Hamoud Said
The Citizen Correspondent
Zanzibar. The Zanzibar Health ministry is grappling with an escalating outbreak of measles which has so far affected 262 children, up from 70 last month.
The minister for Health Mr Juma Duni Haji told a press conference here yesterday that the outbreak first reported in July this year was worsening because parents were neglecting to take their children for vaccination.Mr Duni said children with measles have been recorded in both Unguja and Pemba islands.
He asked parents, the media and religious leaders to join forces against the disease.He mentioned the worst affected villages as Mwera, Kinuni, Magogoni, and Pangawe, adding that an immunisation exercise was going on daily between Monday and Friday to contain the outbreak...
Measles continues to ravage Isles as 262 contract disease
Friday, 09 September 2011 22:38
By Hamoud Said
The Citizen Correspondent
Zanzibar. The Zanzibar Health ministry is grappling with an escalating outbreak of measles which has so far affected 262 children, up from 70 last month.
The minister for Health Mr Juma Duni Haji told a press conference here yesterday that the outbreak first reported in July this year was worsening because parents were neglecting to take their children for vaccination.Mr Duni said children with measles have been recorded in both Unguja and Pemba islands.
He asked parents, the media and religious leaders to join forces against the disease.He mentioned the worst affected villages as Mwera, Kinuni, Magogoni, and Pangawe, adding that an immunisation exercise was going on daily between Monday and Friday to contain the outbreak...