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More than 100 children die of measles in Pakistan in 19 days

A Pakistani mother tends to her young son suffering from measles at a Red Cross hospital in the city of Sukkur in southern Sindh province on January 1, 2013. (AFP)

More than 100 children have died of measles in Pakistan this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, calling it “an alarming outbreak.” “Some 103 Pakistani children have died from Jan 1 to Jan 19 this year because of the post-measles complications such as pneumonia, post-measles encephalitis and diarrhoea,”…

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Pakistan suffers ‘record’ child measles deaths

A refugee girl cries as a paramedic gives her a measles vaccination in Lahore, Pakistan on May 17 2002. More than 300 Pakistani children died of measles last year, a staggering increase on the previous 12 months and a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said Tuesday. Photo: AFP.

More than 300 Pakistani children died of measles last year, a staggering increase on the previous 12 months and a result of three consecutive years of flooding, officials said Tuesday. The United Nations’ World Health Organization said 306 children died of the highly infectious illness last year, 210 of them…

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Olympics could spark global measles outbreak

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A spike in international cases of measles and an increase in the number of parents choosing not to vaccinate their children has health officials worrying that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London could produce thousands of new cases of the disease. According to a Salon.com editorial by Rahul K.…

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