Stalled immunisation rates leads to 140,000 measles deaths: WHO
The global number of reported cases is at its highest since 2011
A decade of stagnating vaccination rates is to blame for a global surge in measles that infected nearly 10 million people last year and killed 140,000, the WHO says.
Provisional figures on the epidemic suggest the crisis is far from over, with the number of cases reported this year exceeding the figures for 2018.
The number of reported measles cases for 2019 reached 413,308 in November, compared with 333,445 in 2018.
And in Samoa, which has been in the grip of a severe measles outbreak since mid-October, at least 63 people have died.
