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Zimbabwe: 2023 Measles

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Source: https://www.newsday.co.zw/health/article/200009468/measles-kills-750-children-report

Measles kills 750 children: Report
By Sharon Buwerimwe | 19h ago | 3 Min read

MORE than 750 children under the age of five have succumbed to measles in Zimbabwe since last year, an Amnesty International (AI) report has revealed.

In a report titled State of World’s Human Rights, released yesterday, AI said the main measles hotspot in the country was Mutasa district in Manicaland, an area which is mostly dominated by the Johanne Marange apostolic sect that does not believe in modern medicine or vaccination.

Children aged between six months and five years were the worst affected...
 
Source: https://www.newzimbabwe.com/governm...es-reclusive-apostolic-sect-members-children/

Govt ropes in uniformed forces as measles outbreak ravages reclusive apostolic sect members’ children
11th April 2023 Top Story
By Mary Taruvinga

THE silence that pervades Madya, a small village ward in Chivi, Masvingo province, seems to narrate dark tales unfolding in the secluded area.

Rickety homesteads typical of all rural settings in Zimbabwe dominate the mountainous terrain.

The shabby looking homesteads are hidden below mountains as if the occupants intend to conceal themselves from the outside world.

Their fields have failed, and women already pregnant while still nursing crawling babies, try to eke out a living from picking the little they can out of the parched fields.

Zimbabwe is home a litany of apostolic sects and the majority of residents in this area are members of a hitherto unreported sect.

Male members have up to 15 wives each, who are not allowed to seek medical attention and literally live detached from the rest of the country let alone the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic came, the world grappled but this section of the society still is blissfully ignorant to the menace beyond their mountains.

There is no family planning and no vaccination against communicable diseases that are prevalent among children...
 
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