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Pakistan at the precipice: The looming threat of measles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

The global focus on curbing the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the overall immunization rates worldwide. This, coupled with increasing malnutrition and strained healthcare, has increased measles cases and mortality globally. Many countries are thus facing outbreaks, with Afghanistan having reported 3...

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Autores principales: Tariq, Samiuddin, Niaz, Faizan, Afzal, Yusra, Tariq, Rabbia, Nashwan, Abdulqadir J., Ullah, Irfan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36478715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1000906
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author Tariq, Samiuddin
Niaz, Faizan
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Tariq, Rabbia
Nashwan, Abdulqadir J.
Ullah, Irfan
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description The global focus on curbing the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the overall immunization rates worldwide. This, coupled with increasing malnutrition and strained healthcare, has increased measles cases and mortality globally. Many countries are thus facing outbreaks, with Afghanistan having reported 372 deaths between January and September 2022. Therefore, Pakistan, a country in a similar economic state and the world's fourth highest reported measles cases in 2022, must take action. Moreover, the current flooded state of Pakistan and the subsequent mass movement of population, deterioration of health services, and worsened living conditions all contribute to put the country at a high risk of potentially devastating Measles outbreaks. With vaccination rates down by 42% since the start of the pandemic and the threat of an outbreak increasing daily, there is only so much time before the situation spirals out of control.
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spelling pubmed-97203142022-12-06 Pakistan at the precipice: The looming threat of measles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Tariq, Samiuddin Niaz, Faizan Afzal, Yusra Tariq, Rabbia Nashwan, Abdulqadir J. Ullah, Irfan Front Public Health Public Health The global focus on curbing the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the overall immunization rates worldwide. This, coupled with increasing malnutrition and strained healthcare, has increased measles cases and mortality globally. Many countries are thus facing outbreaks, with Afghanistan having reported 372 deaths between January and September 2022. Therefore, Pakistan, a country in a similar economic state and the world's fourth highest reported measles cases in 2022, must take action. Moreover, the current flooded state of Pakistan and the subsequent mass movement of population, deterioration of health services, and worsened living conditions all contribute to put the country at a high risk of potentially devastating Measles outbreaks. With vaccination rates down by 42% since the start of the pandemic and the threat of an outbreak increasing daily, there is only so much time before the situation spirals out of control. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9720314/ /pubmed/36478715 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1000906 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tariq, Niaz, Afzal, Tariq, Nashwan and Ullah. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Pakistan at the precipice: The looming threat of measles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36478715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1000906
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