4 Nov 2019
INSIGHT-Measles and mistrust in Ukraine weaken world’s defences
Author: admintech | Filed under: WorldLONDON/KIEV, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Many of the people coming to Anna Kukharuk’s private medical clinic don’t have a disease. Deep mistrust of vaccines in Ukraine has allowed measles, a virus which according to United Nations data kills 367 children a day worldwide, to grow into an epidemic infecting more than 58,000 people in the country of 42 million this year alone. International health officials are investigating whether pilgrims to a rabbi’s grave in the Ukrainian city of Uman may have carried measles, via Israel, to the United States.