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 Millionen Kinder ohne Masernimpfung infographic
Grafik zeigt globale Fälle von Masern in den ersten drei Monaten von 2019, sowie die Top-10 Länder mit hohem Einkommen, in denen Kinder keine Erstimpfung gegen Masern erhalten haben.
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Millionen Kinder in aller Welt erhalten keine Masernimpfung

April 25, 2019 - Geschätzte 169 Millionen Kinder haben keine Erstimpfung gegen Masern in den Jahren 2010 bis 2017 erhalten, berichtet die UNICEF, obwohl es zu einem sprunghaften Anstieg der hochansteckenden Krankheit gekommen ist.

As a result of greater vulnerability to the disease, more than 110,000 measles cases were reported worldwide during the first three months of 2019, representing a near 300 per cent jump from the same period last year, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) data.

In 2017, some 110,000 people, most of them children, died from measles – a 22 percent increase from the year before, UNICEF said.

The children's organisation explained that although two doses of the measles vaccine are “essential” to protect children from the disease, a lack of access, poor health systems, complacency, and in some cases a fear of vaccines, led to a drop in global coverage for the first dose to only 85 percent in 2017 – a level that has remained similar for the past decade. Global coverage for the second dose is even lower, at 67 percent.

The WHO recommends a threshold of 95 percent immunisation coverage to achieve so-called “herd immunity” – or vaccinating a significant enough portion of the population to provide protection for those who have yet to develop immunity.

Among high-income countries, the United States – currently fighting its biggest measles outbreak in almost 20 years – topped UNICEF’s list of places with the most children missing the first vaccine dose between 2010 and 2017, at more than 2.5 million.

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PUBLISHED: 25/04/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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