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THURSDAY, Aug. 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Vaccine refusals have contributed to a “dramatic resurgence” of measles in Europe, the World Health Organization says.<\/p>\n
In the first half of this year, there were nearly 90,000 measles cases in Europe, nearly double the number reported for the same period in 2018, according to a WHO report released Thursday. Most of the measles cases occurred in Ukraine in the first half of 2019 (84,000), followed by Kazakhstan and Georgia, the Associated Press<\/i> reported. Four European countries — Albania, the Czech Republic, Greece, and the United Kingdom — have lost their status as having eliminated measles, an expert WHO committee said.<\/p>\n
“If high immunization coverage is not achieved and sustained in every community, both children and adults will suffer unnecessarily and some will tragically die,” said Guenter Pfaff, M.D., chair of a WHO expert committee on measles in Europe, the AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n
A number of European countries have implemented stronger vaccination policies, but areas of vaccine refusal have led to epidemics across the continent, the AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n
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