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Measles update

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    About 237 deaths from measles have been registered in recent weeks in Niger out of 44,513 people infected with the disease, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) reported this week. MSF said its teams, in collaboration with Niger’s health authorities, vaccinated more than 200,000 children in the regions of Niamey, the south central district of Maradi and Tahoua, northeast of Niamey.

    Tahoua was also affected by a meningitis epidemic that claimed the lives of 559 out of 7,452 infected persons. Some 206,660 persons have so far been vaccinated against meningitis in Tahoua, MSF said.

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