Pakistan child measles deaths surge in 2012 [View all]
Source: Omaha World Herald-AP
By ADIL JAWAD
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Measles cases surged in Pakistan in 2012, and hundreds of children died from the disease, an international health body said Tuesday.
In recent days Pakistani officials said they launched an immunization campaign to reach children in the worst-hit areas. But the country still struggles with a beleaguered health care system, unsanitary conditions in many regions and a lack of education about how to prevent disease. All those factors make it difficult to combat infectious diseases such as measles and polio.
Also, many oppose vaccinations, suspecting they are meant to harm their people.
A spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, Maryam Yunus, said that 306 children died in Pakistan of measles in 2012, compared to 64 the year before.
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