WHO Calls for Measles Vaccination in Europe

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on European nations to step up vaccinations against the highly contagious measles virus. The measles outbreak affected 22,149 people in seven countries across the region since the start of 2014; with Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Russia hit hardest. The resurgence of this preventable disease in some European countries, as well as in some parts of the United States, coincides with a movement among some parents to refuse ...