Sunday, 3 February 2013

Need to launch measles awareness programmes

<strong>Measles is an infectious viral disease that causes fever and red rashes on the skin, typically occurring in childhood. It accounts for an estimated 21,000 deaths annually in the country, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) reports. But apart from that the country at the moment is in the grip of a measles epidemic</strong>.

While a vaccination drive is under way in parts of Pakistan affected by measles, the absence of adequate awareness programmes for educating

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