USA: Measles make a comeback in America

Fear, blame and anti-vaxxers: Measles makes a comeback in the USA

In Rockland County, New York, a state of emergency has been declared over an outbreak of measles - a disease officially eradicated in the US in 2000, but whose re-emergence has triggered a backlash of blame and recriminations as US medical services slowly go downhill

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Measles Outbreaks on the Rise in Europe – TIME Healthland

As of October, European health officials reported more than 26,000 measles cases this year and nine deaths. That's a threefold increase in cases from the same time period in 2007, said the World Health Organization.

France accounted for about 14,000 cases, mainly in children older than five and in young adults.

Other big outbreaks of the highly-contagious disease have been identified in Spain, Romania, Macedonia, and Uzbekistan. So far, measles has killed nine people in Europe and hospitalized thousands of others. The report was published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Health officials report measles outbreak in Europe with most reported cases in France

The World Health Organization says there is an outbreak of measles in Europe with more than 6,500 cases reported in 33 nations.WHO officials released figures Thursday showing three of every four of the reported cases have been in France. The figures show that as of Monday there were 4,937 reported cases in France between January and March, compared with 5,090 during all of 2010.

Spain reported more than 600 cases in Andalusia in two outbreaks since October. Sevilla had more than 350 cases, Granada, about 250 cases.

WHO said outbreaks and rising case numbers were reported in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia and Switzerland.

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