Measles is here again. A nasty disease that kills kids who are malnourished, and also weakens them so they are more vulnerable to other infections (pneumonia, ear infections, tuberculosis).
The outbreak seems to be in the southern island, in Muslim areas but the rate of getting preventive immunizations in kids has gone down after covid hit for several reasons: not just the antivax stuff on the social media but because the economy is bad and moms just don't have the energy or money to go to the clinic for the shots.
this is a follow up to my earlier post LINK
Local video from 4 months is a good discussion of how the public health system is trying to stop preventable deaths on many levels.
the discussion starts with discussing the vaccines for elders and then notes the problem of measles and also about TB and other public health problems.
I should note that I haven't heard of any measles in our area, but we are seeing kids with respiratory symptoms in our area I wonder if this is partly Whooping cough which is causing outbreaks not just here in the Philippines but in other countries at the present time.
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