WHO/Europe calls for scaled-up vaccination against measles

The WHO Regional Office for Europe called on policy-makers, health care workers and parents in February 2015 to immediately step up vaccination against measles across age groups at risk. This will help to put an end to the outbreaks occurring in countries in the WHO European Region and to prevent similar outbreaks in the future.

Seven countries in the Region had reported 22,567 cases of measles in 2014 and up to February 2015. This threatened the Region’s goal of eliminating the disease by the end of 2015. Even though measles cases fell by 50% from 2013 to 2014, large outbreaks continued.

BBC News, 25.02.15: WHO 'taken aback' by measles outbreaks http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31622960

WHO: Europe: Topics: Communicable diseases: Measles and rubella http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/measles-and-rubella

http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/measles/Pages/index.aspx http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/measles/Pages/index.aspx

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