Lithuania: 2019 Measles

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Source: https://www.baltictimes.com/this_year_s_first_measles_case_registered_in_lithuania_s_kaunas/

This year's first measles case registered in Lithuania's Kaunas
2019-01-22 BNS/TBT Staff

VILNIUS - This year's first measles case was registered in Lithuania's second-biggest city of Kaunas last week, the National Public Health Center said on Tuesday.

The last time a measles case was confirmed in the Kaunas county was last December. The authorities are now looking at whether there is a link between these two cases.

 

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Source: https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/...igns-of-abating-in-lithuania-health-official/

Measles outbreak: No signs of abating in Lithuania ? Health Official
Saturday, March 30, 2019 9:37 am


The number of measles cases is projected to increase further in Lithuania as people have lost their collective immunity to this highly contagious viral disease.

The Director of Lithuania?s Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), Saulius Caplinskas, said on Friday...

..Recent data from ULAC shows that the proportion of children vaccinated against measles in the country has decreased from 97 per cent in 2009 to 92.2 per cent in 2018 due to parents? reluctance to vaccinate their kids...

...In total, 310 cases of measles have been registered as of Friday in Lithuania this year, compared to 30 cases for the whole of 2018, ULAC data showed.

The largest number of cases, 149, was registered in Kaunas, Lithuania?s second largest city.

In Vilnius, the capital, 39 measles cases have been registered to date...