{"id":6744,"date":"2019-11-22T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"dr-congo-measles-nearly-5000-dead-in-major-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/22\/dr-congo-measles-nearly-5000-dead-in-major-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo Measles: Nearly 5,000 Dead In Major Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic\nRepublic of Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all\nthe provinces in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close to a quarter of a million people have been infected this\nyear alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the world&#8217;s\nlargest and fastest-moving epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measles in DR Congo has now killed more than twice the number\nwho have died of Ebola there in the last 15 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congolese government\nand the WHO launched&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-49836280\"><strong>an\nemergency vaccination Programme<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in September that\naimed to inoculate more than 800,000 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But poor infrastructure, attacks on health centres and a lack of\naccess to routine healthcare have all hindered efforts to stop the spread of\nthe disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-48186856\"><strong>What\nare vaccines and how do they work?<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07l0f91\"><strong>Listen: Deadly measles outbreak\nin DR Congo<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Four million children have been vaccinated, but experts warn\nthat this amounts to less than half of the total in the country &#8211; and not\nenough vaccines are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of those infected with measles in the country are\ninfants\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-50506743\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all the provinces in the country.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}