Just as if the whole world it's getting off the recent pandemic that mesmerized the whole world called COVID, there again come another threat as fear incumbered in minds of all following the recent warning from the world health organization of the outbreak of measles to be expected soon.
A record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose in 2021 due to hurdles created by the Covid pandemic, the WHO and the CDC said in a joint report.source
Following the messes that the pandemic caused both in the economic sectors and various other sectors of survival, the misfortunes caused which has not been totally cleared up and citizens standing strong in various countries,now come this mighty outbreak ready to be unfolded soon. If the right measures needed to taken to mitigate or lessen it's effect it would still be likened to what COVID is and was and still is.
Dr. Patrick O’Connor, told Reuters ;
“We are at a crossroads,” he said Tuesday. “It is going to be a very challenging 12-24 months trying to mitigate this.source
Following the statement made by the official of health concerning this, it is of high attention to this been drawn to health workers, medical professionals as pertaining the looming of this as warned. Not over yet as many might take this to be a joke as to various claims of this cure both in herbals and modern medicines as such much attention and yielding to this warning might not be taken serious most especially to people leaving in rural areas.
Last week, the public health department in Columbus, Ohio, reported a measles outbreak with 24 active cases, according to the NBC News affiliate WCMH. All of those cases are in unvaccinated children.source
Case studies of some quack health practitioners which in the process of administering what is meant to be a vaccine to a disease then punctures and injures the wrong nerve which afterwards cause a permanent damage to the patient leading to permanent deformation. Such being normal in rural areas as am a witness to this. This invariably causing much fear in parents releasing their kids for vaccination. This in the other hand decreasing the rate at which this vaccine be administered.
Great fear is been raised as medically proven by W.H.O that as of now there aren't a specific antiviral vaccine that treats measles. If so being the case then much attention should be drawn to this as at 2021 according to documentary that 128 000 died of Measles. Much care and special follow up should be done to this as health being wealth.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna58576