Risk of measles outbreaks growing as 22 million infants miss 1st vaccine: Officials

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Risk of measles outbreaks growing as 22 million infants miss 1st vaccine: Officials
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Even in countries with high vaccination rates, anti-vaccine sentiment has led to outbreaks in some communities.

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Two-thirds of those children live in just 10 countries: Nigeria, India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Angola, the Philippines, Brazil and Afghanistan.An health worker injects a measles and rubella vaccine into a student's arm at a government school at Hatibhangi village in Morigoan in Assam state on Sept. 4, 2018.Health workers in Badakhshan provide measles vaccines to children on Sept. 2, 2018.

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