The organization also calls 'vaccine hesitancy' a key global health threat.
A woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow April 16 at 8:28 AM Measles cases increased 300 percent worldwide in the first three months of 2019 compared to the first three months in 2018, according to the World Health Organization.
Measles is preventable by vaccine — but vaccination rates are declining. In part, that’s due to supply problems. In Madagascar, for example, infrastructure provided a challenge, contributing to a measles outbreak earlier this year. Africa had the biggest rise in measles cases — 700 percent compared to the same period in 2018.
An outbreak in Ukraine, for example, was blamed in part by Alana Suprun, Ukraine’s acting minister of health, on a lack of political commitment to and public sentiment against vaccination. The concept of mandatory vaccinations, or variations on that theme, are being used elsewhere, too, in an attempt to stop measles outbreaks. Italian children have been instructed not to appear at school without proof of vaccination, and Italian officials say vaccination rates have improved since the introduction of that rule.
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