At least 42 people have died from a measles outbreak in a little more than a week in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa, the state's health commissioner says. Measles vaccines have been released to those areas and our field teams are containing the situation, he said at a media briefing.
Since the armed group Boko Haram started launching attacks in Nigeria in 2009, more than two million people have been displaced from their homes, spawning one of the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crises. MSF said earlier this year that the inability of public health actors in Nigeria to achieve the 95 percent vaccination rate required to suppress measles led to an alarming rise in the number of people affected by the virus last year.
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