UN’s Solution to Nepalese Children Displaced by Earthquake? Vaccinate Them!

‘The United Nations, the World Health Organization and Nepalese authorities have announced efforts to vaccinate some 500,000 children against measles amid last week’s earthquake that killed more than seven thousand people.

Claiming a measles epidemic could sweep through temporary makeshift villages erected in the wake of the earthquake, Nepal’s Ministry of Health and Population, alongside Unicef and WHO workers, “scrambled medical teams to the most densely populated areas to start vaccinating under-fives against measles,” reports The Mirror.

In a statement Monday, Nepalese Unicef Representative Tomoo Hozumi said the squalid state of tent cities provides optimal conditions for the contagion to spread.’

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