Infectious Disease Ping - Measles Outbreak - African, Congo
Measles has killed nearly three times as many people as Ebola
in the Democratic Republic of Congo, figures show.
Around 6,000 patients have died from measles since the start of 2019,
with cases reported in every corner of the African country.
More than a quarter of a million people have been infected in that time, with the World Health Organisation describing it as the 'world's worst outbreak'.
uh, maybe in today's well nourished Americans of western European descent, but not in areas with malnutrition or where people don't have a genetic resistance.
when I worked in rural Africa, the mortality in malnourished children was high: And many who survived died a week to a month later from viral croup or tuberculosis, since measles causes a suppression of the immune system.