Breaking News – Measles variation infected over 10,000 people in Xinjiang
On March 4 Xinjiang Health Department announced in the statutory infectious diseases circular that this year, a Xinjiang measles epidemic expanded more than previous years significantly. From January to February the number of reported measles cases exceeded 11,000 cases, already claiming 21 lives.
It is learnt that this is a variant of the measles epidemic, leads to high fever and quick spread among people. Of these, 4,365 cases of the disease were reported in January with 10 cases of death; 6,772 cases of occurrence in February with 11 people dying. So far, over 50,000 people have already received the measles vaccine.
According to sources, from the hospital outpatient departments and clinical reception of the situation, with the exception of children, adults around the age of 30 and infants of less than eight months are the two major groups of vulnerability to contract the measles.
Additionally, the news from the epidemic stricken area says that the actual epidemic situation is worse than the CCP official reports, for it is a variant of measles with no remedy to cure it. The largest number of deaths occurred in Aksu region, particularly in the Kuqa County, which has far exceeded the number of deaths announced by the government.
In 1984 the measles immunization programme had been implemented in Xinjiang, and the number of measles contractions significantly declined. Now the occurances and mortality rates is one tenth of that in 1970’s. Xinjiang Health Department said that this year from January to February, the reported measles cases in Xinjiang have rebounded with a measles epidemic notably higher than that of the previous two years.
The above news is brought to you by Yu Ying, and hosted by Chris Thomas for Breaking News on The SOH Radio Network.
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