Measles at alarming levels in the Philippines  

13 December 2018

According to the Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) the number of measles cases in Western Visayas has reached alarming levels with 170 cases and 3 suspected deaths. Many parents are refusing to vaccinate their children following the problems encountered with the dengue vaccine. Parents have concluded that the issues will be the same with well-tested vaccines such as measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. Read more

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