Measles Outbreak

Zimbabwe measles outbreak kills scores of children

Disease leaves at least 157 children dead with more than 2,000 infections recorded across the landlocked African country, officials say.

Twenty million children miss out on lifesaving vaccines in 2018 - UN

WHO and UNICEF blame war, inequality as well as complacency for 20 million children missing immunisation.

Measles cases rise nearly four-fold - WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that global measles cases have nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 cases compared to the same period last year.

Australia launches massive measles campaign following spike in cases

Measles was declared officially eliminated from Australia by the World Health Organisation in 2014. But the growing anti-vaccine movement has seen a reemergence of the disease in developed nations including Australia.

Measles outbreak kills as many as 100 children in Indonesia

Local health officials say another eight hundred children are sick. The Indonesian government is blamed for neglecting of the remote island, which was controversially annexed in 1962.