Measles outbreak kills 12 children in NWA

MIRANSHAH: A measles outbreak has killed 12 children in a tribal district North Waziristan and is spreading as fighting, power cuts and curfews cause a vaccine shortage, doctors said on Monday."For the past three weeks, we are daily receiving five to 10 children suffering from measles," said doctor Muhammad Ali Shah, chief of the main hospital in Miranshah, the area's biggest town. He would normally see only one or two deaths a year from the disease, he said. But another doctor, Muhammad Sadiq, ... more

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