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https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/measles-surging-and-uzbekistan-bolstering-its-defences>
"As measles surges in Europe, Uzbek health authorities have scrambled to shore
up the country's already formidable vaccination ramparts. "At present, the
epidemic situation in the Republic is stable and under full control,"
government spokespeople said, as the Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance
and Public Health service reported 98.4% of their target population for a
recent mass vaccination drive reached.
But outbreaks in neighbouring countries, challenging local social developments,
and an already worryingly elevated case-count for the first five months of the
year mean there's little room for complacency.
More than 900 cases of the life-threatening and highly-contagious viral
infection were reported from 17 countries in the WHO European region in just
the first two months of this year – a greater figure than recorded on the
continent for the whole of 2022.
Within the first five months of the year, Uzbekistan's neighbours Tajikistan,
with 215 cases, and Kyrgyzstan, with 149, are seeing an alarming rise in the
number of measles infections, according to provisional WHO data. And in Turkey
and Russia, the destination for a majority of Uzbek migrant workers, the number
of reported measles cases grew to 745 and 2,280 respectively.
Uzbekistan has not gone unscathed, even if the risk of a major epidemic has so
far been held off by high immunity rates. Between 1 January and May 9, 2023, 59
citizens were diagnosed with suspected measles, according to World Health
Organization statistics. The virus was laboratory-confirmed in 36 cases. By
comparison, in 2022, only eight people nationwide were diagnosed with measles."
Via
Future Crunch:
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*** Xanni ***
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