Vietnam reports 25 deaths caused by measles

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Vietnam has reported 25 deaths caused by measles and its complications as of the end of March 2014, said Vietnam's General Department of Preventive Medicine ( GDPM) on Tuesday.

According to a press release on the department's website, so far since the beginning of 2014, a total of 2,492 cases have been confirmed diagnosis of measles.

Tran Dac Phu, head of GDPM under Vietnam's Ministry of Health, said at an online conference on implementing the work of preventing and combating measles late Tuesday that 87.6 percent of the measles patients were not vaccinated or not clear in their vaccination history while only 4.2 percent of kids went down with the disease after vaccination.

Phu quoted local medical experts as saying that the epidemic in Vietnam will be controlled and gradually reduced in the coming months as the weather is turning to drier summer. In addition, across Vietnam, nearly half of children aged from one to two years were vaccinated in March, said Phu.

Vietnam is expected to finish the vaccination for measles for the remaining kids in April, said Phu.

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said at the conference that around 23 million Vietnamese kids at their ages of one to 14 are projected to get injected to fight against measles and rubella (also called German measles) from now on till 2017. Endi

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