Global rise in measles cases in 2019: WHO

Updated April 16 2019 - 5:03am, first published 4:59am
The WHO is urging people to be vaccinated for measles amid a four-fold rise in the disease in 2019.
The WHO is urging people to be vaccinated for measles amid a four-fold rise in the disease in 2019.

The number of measles cases worldwide nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 against the same period last year, the World Health Organisation says, citing provisional data.

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