Tag: Measles

Despite tall claims of federal and provincial governments and health authorities measles continued to engulf lives of infants as two more children died in...

A special vaccination campaign was launched in the city on Saturday to prevent the outbreak of measles epidemic. The campaign will last till January...

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security on Saturday directed the security agencies to register an FIR against every individual they took into custody for...

Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Friday said that the wounds of Baloch nationalists would be filled by negotiations and dialogues and use...

World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said 306 children died in Pakistan due to measles in 2012. Although the WHO spokesperson, Maryam Yunus, did...

The World Health Organization says measles cases surged in southern Pakistan in 2012, with hundreds of children dying of the disease. The World Health Organization...

A deadly measles outbreak in interior Sindh has left at least 161 children dead in the last 30 days as five more children die...

Measles on Thursday claimed one more life of a child in Kot Maronand Wani village of district Kashmore as death toll of children has...

Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah,has ordered an inquiry into the reports regarding cases of measles in various districts and death of children. A...

So far at least 22 children have died due to fatal disease of measles during the last five weeks in various areas of Sindh...

Physicians warned parents and guardian to be cognizant of a possible breakout of measles during autumn. Karachi Civil Hospital pediatrics...

As the reports surfaced indicating 27 deaths this year so far under 5-year-old children due to measles, Health Minister Sindh Dr. Sagheer Ahmed denied...

A measles outbreak has killed 12 children in one of Pakistan’s lawless tribal districts and is spreading as fighting, power cuts and curfews cause...

LONDON - An epidemic of measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "spiralling out of control", the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday. The doctors group said it had counted 21,000 measles cases since September 2010 in an epidemic sweeping through the central African country.
It said urgent international action was needed to halt the spread of the highly contagious disease. "Since September 2010 we have vaccinated more than 1.5

LAHORE - On the directions of Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad, the Health Department is launching a 12-day preventive campaign from January 17 against measles, during which medical teams will administer injections to children between 6 months to 6 years of age.
Lahore Health Executive District Officer Dr Umer Farooq Baloch informed that the department has constituted 500 medical teams for this campaign, who will not only visit door-to-door but also visit government as