the World is facing several health problems, says the WHO in its latest report that is the basis for a new five-year action plan. It’s all about antibiotic resistance, obesity and physical inactivity, environmental pollution and climate change, and humanitarian crises. But the WHO also lists the outbreaks of diseases like measles and diphtheria which can be prevented with a vaccine.
Measles is one of the most infectious diseases and the number of mässlingsfall has increased substantially in the last few years. According to the WHO had 41.000 adults and children infected by the disease the first six months of 2018.
mässlingfall quadrupled the last few years: 2016, reported just over 5,000 mässlingsfall. The following year had over 20.000 people in 15 countries become ill and 35 died of measles.
” this defeat shows that all the people who are not immune against the disease is exposed, regardless of where they live, and all countries must continue to work to increase the protection against measles, said Under Emiroglu, director of the WHO’s euro-title for health and infectious diseases, in connection with the latest outbreak.
a Record number of cases of measles in Europe
the outbreak in the winter of 2018, in the Gothenburg area. The majority of the Swedish mässlingsfallen is about the so-called imported cases, which means that people infected by the disease outside of Sweden.
This struck infection – they ended up in the middle of the outbreak center
There are effective vaccines against the disease and in Sweden included measles vaccine in the general vaccination programme. But there are groups and areas where fewer choose to get vaccinated in Sweden and other parts of the world, even against other dangerous infectious diseases.
Vaccinmotståndet concerned about the WHO. In the day die 2-3 million people in the diseases that could be prevented with vaccination is the most cost-effective way to avoid infectious diseases.
is several but is primarily about an exaggerated belief in their own bedömningsförmågan, a widespread distrust of vaccines and that in many cases is cumbersome and time-consuming to get vaccinated.
in Order to try to reverse the trend, will the WHO to step up work on vaccination against communicable diseases in the coming years.
the Other health risks the WHO lists are air pollution and climate change, which has claimed millions of victims annually. Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem as well as pandemics and högrisksjukdomar like ebola.
the Government wants to give parents better information about vaccinations