Irish measles cases rise by more than 200% as experts blame drop in vaccination rates
Image: Shutterstock/OneSideProFoto Image: Shutterstock/OneSideProFoto CASES OF MEASLES in Ireland more than doubled last year, according to a United Nations report which has revealed that outbreaks of the virus are on the rise globally.
Cases of measles increased in 98 countries around the world from 2017 to 2018, with cases in Ireland growing by more than 200%, from 25 in 2017 to 86 in 2018. “The measles virus will always find unvaccinated children. If we are serious about averting the spread of this dangerous but preventable disease, we need to vaccinate every child, in rich and poor countries alike.”
Resurgence of disease has been partly linked to the growing anti-vaccine movement in richer countries, which the World Health Organization has identified as a major global health threat. The country recorded 695 cases of measles in 2019, the most of any year since the disease was declared eliminated at the turn of the century, and surpassing the previous high of 667 reached in 2014.
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