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Video Player Close MANILA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that recent measles outbreaks in the Western Pacific region are putting babies, children and young people at risk again and threatening progress in efforts to wipe out the most contagious human disease. "In recent months, we've seen how swiftly and easily measles can make a comeback in communities where not enough children have been immunized," WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai said. The U.N. health agency recorded a 250 percent increase of measles cases in the region in 2018, and more than two-thirds of cases were in the Philippines. "The resurgence of measles around the world has resulted in increased importation of the virus to several countries in our region," Kasai said. "What we want to stop is large-scale outbreaks resulting from those importations," Kasai said, stressing the need to aggressively implement a vac...
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