Infants younger than 12 months are most at risk from low measles vaccination rates.
Preventable deaths are on the rise in the European Union amid low vaccine uptake, putting young children most at risk, Europe's disease agency has warned.
At least five people in EU countries died of measles between March 2023 and the end of February 2024, all in Romania, while data showed a more than 10-fold increase in whooping cough cases in the EU in 2023 and 2024 compared to the previous two years.
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“It is disheartening to see that despite decades of a well-documented safety and effectiveness track record of vaccines, countries in the EU/EEA and globally still face outbreaks of several vaccine-preventable diseases,” said Andrea Ammon, ECDC director.
I recently got the diphtheria and tetanus vax booster which you need every 10 years, i think i was 2 years late on this one because like most people after high school i had forgotten or simply do not care. Took some digging to find my childhood vax passport. This only came to my mind after i had done my 3rd covid booster