Measles Still Has a Devastating Impact in Unvaccinated Populations
Open Access
- 2 January 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (1) , e24
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040024
Abstract
Although global mortality from measles is falling, a study inPLoS Medicine found that children in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad face unacceptably high mortality from measles, a largely preventable disease.Keywords
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