Measles epidemic threatening Poland?
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
26.02.2015 14:26
-
Measles epidemic threatening Poland?
The World Health Organization in Europe has called for increased measles vaccination campaigns as a recent resurgence in the disease threatens - they say - Europe’s goal of eliminating measles by the end of 2015.
Photo: Glowimages
As Elżbieta Krajewska reports, the move also comes in the wake of the death from measles of an 18-month-old boy in Germany.
There have been recent cases of measles in Poland, says Dr Paradowska-Stankiewicz.
"[There have been] four cases reported since the beginning of the year, while in 2014 in the same period there were 34 reported. If however we sum up the previous year, there were reported and confirmed in laboratory tests 110 cases," she said.