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Fears grow as measles running rampant in southern Thailand
Amid deep-rooted vaccination fears, curable disease makes forceful reappearance with thousands of cases and 22 deaths.
by Caleb Quinley
10 hours ago
Narathiwat, Thailand - Suraiya first noticed something was wrong with her two-year-old son, Atfan Kuning, when he couldn't eat or keep any food down.
The possibility of measles came to mind early as she remembered the warning postings about the vaccine-preventable disease on TV and radio, as well as on billboards plastered around Narathiwat and throughout the southern Thai province.
"At first, I tried to think positively, I thought, maybe it?s not measles, maybe it's something else," says Suraiya, 26. "I thought, he got the first vaccine, so this can?t happen to him."
But it did...
Fears grow as measles running rampant in southern Thailand
Amid deep-rooted vaccination fears, curable disease makes forceful reappearance with thousands of cases and 22 deaths.
by Caleb Quinley
10 hours ago
Narathiwat, Thailand - Suraiya first noticed something was wrong with her two-year-old son, Atfan Kuning, when he couldn't eat or keep any food down.
The possibility of measles came to mind early as she remembered the warning postings about the vaccine-preventable disease on TV and radio, as well as on billboards plastered around Narathiwat and throughout the southern Thai province.
"At first, I tried to think positively, I thought, maybe it?s not measles, maybe it's something else," says Suraiya, 26. "I thought, he got the first vaccine, so this can?t happen to him."
But it did...