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UN: Ivory Coast Measles Outbreak Linked to Political Crisis
Scott Stearns | Dakar February 15, 2011
Health workers Wednesday begin vaccinating more than a half million children in Ivory Coast, after an outbreak of measles that the United Nations says is the result of disruption in health services caused by the country's ongoing political crisis.
Ivory Coast's health ministry has confirmed 47 cases of measles since the first of the year. Nearly 80 percent of those are children under the age of five, nearly all of whom were not properly vaccinated.
The U.N. children's agency says this outbreak is a direct result of the collapse of much of the healthcare system during the ongoing political crisis between Ivory Coast's rival governments...
UN: Ivory Coast Measles Outbreak Linked to Political Crisis
Scott Stearns | Dakar February 15, 2011
Health workers Wednesday begin vaccinating more than a half million children in Ivory Coast, after an outbreak of measles that the United Nations says is the result of disruption in health services caused by the country's ongoing political crisis.
Ivory Coast's health ministry has confirmed 47 cases of measles since the first of the year. Nearly 80 percent of those are children under the age of five, nearly all of whom were not properly vaccinated.
The U.N. children's agency says this outbreak is a direct result of the collapse of much of the healthcare system during the ongoing political crisis between Ivory Coast's rival governments...