Izvor: N1 televizija, 16.Apr.2018, 10:28 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Measles epidemic slowing down
The number of registered cases of measles has been dropping in the past weeks, a doctor with Serbia’s leading public health institution said on national TV.
A total od 4,740 cases of measles were registered in the country since last October with a third of those patients needing hospital treatment, epidemiologist Dr Darija Kisic Tepavcevic of the Batut Institute of Public Health told the Serbian state TV (RTS).
She said there was a drop in the number of cases reported >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << on a day to day basis in the past few weeks. A total of 15 patients who contracted measles have died with some medical experts blaming the deaths on the failure of parents to inoculate their children fearing possible harmful effects caused by the vaccines.
An anti-inoculation campaign has been underway in Serbia for some time. Kisic Tepavcevic said only people who are not inoculated or were partially inoculated had died or suffered serious complications after contracting measles. The doctor said the number of inoculated children had been on the rise since the measles epidemic broke out last year, adding that the number of doses of the vaccine used this winter was double the amount used in the same period a year earlier.
