Prime Highlights:
- A four-month-old baby died of measles in Mongolia’s capital city Ulaanbaatar even though he was undergoing treatment.
- The National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) has asked for early reporting of measles so that more lives are saved.
Key Facts:
- The baby was admitted in a critical condition and died within a few hours even though he was undergoing treatment.
- Measles is a contagious viral disease that transmits by respiratory droplets and direct contact.
- Measles might be prevented best and best through vaccination.
Key Background :
Measles is a viral disease that may result in serious complications, especially in children. Measles is contagious as it is passed on to other people through respiratory droplets when the patient coughs or sneezes or by direct contact. The typical presentations of measles are rash, fever, congestion, and cough. Measles can be prevented by vaccination, but it is very dangerous to the vast majority of populations across the world. Endemic measles and hundreds of millions of fatalities annually did not cease before a vaccine was discovered.
One of them despite highly available vaccine, to the extent of World Health Organization (WHO), the disease still kills about 100,000 humans across the globe annually, i.e., children aged less than five years. The most common of such criminals can be avoided with follow-up epidemics wherever there is weak immunity. The 1960s vaccine employed witnessed the death rate reduce, and the WHO deems the vaccine very safe and effective as a controller of the disease.
In Mongolia, the status of measles outbreaks until 2025 was in huge numbers and the majority of them in the capital city of the country, Ulaanbaatar. The National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) had been tallied with a number of several hundreds of confirmed cases of diseases due to one large outbreak. The government of the country is concerned about infection prevalence cases, who are most of all children and particularly the not vaccinated.
This preventable death reminds one of one of the importance of immunization. The physicians have explained how one can prevent measles if the vaccine is given in time and how most of the common vaccine against the disease is received twice, first at 12 years and as a booster dose at 4 to 6 years of age. NCCD also recommended that all such individuals must vaccinate himself if not vaccinated and even do not know to have been vaccinated.
As a result of the ongoing outbreak, the government is advising parents to screen kids for measles and report in a timely manner to health facilities. Early detection will prevent the outbreak of the disease and its potential catastrophic consequences. The public health response is in top gear with extra vaccination campaigns to prevent the outbreak and protect susceptible groups.
