Cases of measles have risen sharply in parts of Europe, reflecting the mobility of people carrying the disease and the failure to complete vaccination strategies among key communities, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.
*Sigh*
The MMR vaccine debacle has been shown to be a whole load of hooey, yet people still choose to avoid the vaccine.
"Around 197,000 people died from measles in 2007, a fall of 74 percent from 2000, thanks to a massive immunisation campaign, according to WHO figures published on December 4.
In the early 1960s, as many as 135 million cases of occurred each year, six million of them fatal."
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