Europe plagued by measles, threefold increase in 4 years
Some 26,000 cases of measles infection claiming up to a dozen lives and leaving about 7,300 hospitalized have been reported in Europe so far this year.
Disaster Calendar 2011 – December 3
[December 3, 2011] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,565 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
- Europe. More than 26,000 measles cases were reported in 36 European countries from January to October 2011. The rise re[resents a 3-fold increase in 4 years.
- The worst-affected country is France with 14,000 cases.
- Other major outbreaks of the disease have been reported in Macedonia, Romania, Spain and Uzbekistan.
- In the U.S. more than 200 cases have been reported so far this year. That’s the largest number in a decade, and a 4-fold increase.
- Most of the recorded cases in the US weer linked to other world regions, including about 2 dozen cases from Europe.
- Measles is a highly contagious and potentially dangerous disease which spreads easily.
- Some 164,000 measles deaths were recorded worldwide in 2008, with 95 percent of deaths occurring in poor countries.
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