FACT SHEET: Measles outbreaks continue unabated
NEW YORK, 5 December 2019 – Children under the age of five accounted for most of the 140,000 people who died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of the Measles and Rubella Initiative. “ The unacceptable number of…