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Geneva, Switzerland—The World Health Organization voiced alarm Tuesday at the rapid spread of measles, with more than 306,000 cases reported worldwide last year—a 79-percent increase from 2022.
She stressed though that measles cases are typically dramatically underreported, and that the real number was surely far higher. Such modeling has not yet been done for last year, but Crowcroft pointed out that 2022 had already seen a 43-percent jump in deaths from the year before.Given the ballooning case numbers, “we would anticipate an increase in deaths in 2023 as well,” she told journalists in Geneva, via video-link from Cairo.She warned that more than half of all countries globally are currently believed to be at high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year.
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