The rapid increase of population and movement of people may have contributed, to the transmission of Measles in the National Capital District.
N-C-D Health Authorities confirmed more cases are being reported, despite ongoing vaccine and immunization programs happening around the city. N-C-D-C's Director of Public Health Dr Niko Wuatai told NBC News, the influx of people, coupled with low coverage of immunization programs, and a high number of patients coming in from central province, has hampered the progress of response. Dr Wuatai says this is a different trend of measles case compared to the last outbreak in 2006. "At the moment it's still widespread. "The measles is still widespread and we are in terms of putting up response, we thought we'd be able to tackle this problem in April and May, now it's going into June and we are hoping that hopefully it will be over by June. "This outbreak is very different to the previous outbreak that we have in the city, Dr. Wuatai said. Dr Wuatai says they are determined to bring the disease under control by improving and strengthening awareness and immunization programs. Meantime, more than 190-thousand people have been vaccinated in N-C-D since the start of the Measles immunization program in February this year. Nine deaths were reported from this epidemic, while confirmed measles cases stands at 665 as of last week. Comments are closed.
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