#vaccination-coverage

#vaccination-coverage

Cases have nearly doubled in the last week alone. "We have right now the largest outbreak in the U.S., and it's going to get worse before it gets better," Dr. Helmut Albrecht, an infectious disease physician with Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, said in a briefing Friday. Hundreds of people in other parts of the state are already in quarantine or isolation, he said.

While coverage has been slipping since 2015, public health specialists say the speed and scale of the drop in 2024 is without precedent a collapse deepened by Javier Milei's sweeping austerity programme, which has slashed the national health budget and strained the outreach networks that once underpinned Argentina's vaccination successes. The decline is serious. Coverage continues to fall. It has never been this low,

Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the "herd immunity" at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show.