Czech Republic: 2019 Measles

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Source: https://www.radio.cz/en/section/pan...ination-rate-drops-below-protective-threshold

Measles outbreak in Czech Republic as vaccination rate drops below protective threshold
Daniela Lazarov?
28-02-2019

The World Health Organization is ringing alarm bells as an increasing number of European countries, including the Czech Republic are fighting an outbreak of measles. Measles cases in Europe tripled in 2018, and the reasons are the same - immunization hesitancy which has interfered with maintaining a high coverage rate in the population and greater movement of people.


...In the Czech Republic the outbreaks are fairly recent. In 2016 there were just 7 cases registered. In 2017 it was 142 cases and in 2018 it was 182 cases. In January and February of this year the number has already reached close to 100 cases, with 70 of them registered in Prague.

Epidemiologist Zdenka Jagrov? says that given the growing hesitancy to immunization in Europe and the spread of the disease from country to country, the situation is serious...

 

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Source: https://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/measles-expected-to-spread-further-due-to-low-immunization

Measles expected to spread further due to low immunization
Daniela Lazarov?
24-03-2019
The number of people infected with measles could rise to 1,000 this year, Health Minister Adam Vojtěch said in a debate on Czech television on Sunday.

The estimate is based on the steep increase of cases since the beginning of this year. Doctors have registered 366 case of measles since the start of the year, with sixty cases in the last week alone...