According to an analysis by children’s charity, the UNICEF discloses that over had a million children in the UK were not given measles jab amid 2010 and 2017. As per health experts, children should have at least two dosages of the vaccine to keep themselves protected from the disease.
The disease is a highly infectious viral illness that can lead to severe health complications which includes lungs and brain infection and which can be deadly.
As per UNICEF, a combination of skepticism, complacency, and misinformation along with lack of access to jabs has to lead to insufficient vaccination rates globally. Simon Stevens, National Health Service (NHS) chief warned that measles cases had almost quadrupled in England in merely one year and also requested families to get the vaccine as soon as possible.
He said that people rejecting the vaccines were growing public health time bomb as per BBC reports. As per these reports, about 169 million children were not given even the first measles vaccine dose amid 2010 to 2017. Between these years
- The US topped the chart of unvaccinated children in high-income countries. Surprisingly 2,593,000 missed the first dose of measles vaccine.
- In France, the figure was 600,00
- The UK is in the third position with 527,000 children not getting measles dose over the seven-year term.
- Nigeria also comes up with about 4 million children not getting even the first dose of measles vaccine.
Sadly in the first three months of 2019 over 110,000 measles cases were reported globally. In the US about 695 cases of measles in 2019 have been reported, shockingly the disease was announced as eliminated in 2000 according to reports of health authorities.
What experts suggests?
President of the British Society for Immunology, Professor Arne Akbar, supposed that ‘ measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can turn out to be severe complications including death’ He added that as measles virus spreads very fastly and easily amid people, it is very important that high percentage of population should get vaccine to stop it from spreading.
Professor Akbar said that last year a large portion of measles cases were in teenagers along with young adults who were not vaccinated when more youthful. He also requested people that ‘in case your children have missed measles vaccine, it’s not too late either to get immunized, do not regret at all by waiting to catch these contagious viral diseases.’
