Philippines measles outbreak: measles outbreak, Philippines measles impact on tourism is significant

Do you have any plans to travel now? If so, you can't go to this place, that is, the Philippines, because the measles epidemic in the Philippines is very serious. More than a hundred people have died and more than 8000 have been infected. So friends who want to travel should be careful not to go to the Philippines.

The measles epidemic has broken out in the Philippines for more than a month, more than 4300 people have been infected and 70 people have been confirmed to have died, of which 18 were residents of Metro Manila. This is still in January, and now it is even more serious. It is reported that more than a hundred people have died and more than 8000 people have been infected, which is very serious.

Philippine Health Minister Francisco Duque III said at a press conference today that from January 1 to February 9 this year, the Epidemiology Bureau (Epidemiology Bureau) of the Ministry of Health received 4302 cases of measles, an increase of 122% over the 1935 cases in the same period last year.

Duke said 70 patients died during this period, up from 18 in the same period in 2018, aged between one month and 31 years old, 79 per cent of whom had not been vaccinated against measles.

Data show that Metro Manila has the largest number of measles cases, with 1296 cases and 18 deaths, followed by five provinces in the south-central part of Luzon Island, with 1086 infected and 25 died.

Health officials speculate that the main reason for the measles outbreak is that people are afraid to be vaccinated in the haze of dengue vaccine Dengvaxia panic.

Dengvaxia was launched in 2015 and claims to be the world's first dengue vaccine. In December of the same year, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to approve its use, but in 2017, more than 100 Filipino children were suspected to have died after being vaccinated with Dengvaxia, and many parents lost confidence in other vaccines and refused to allow their children to be vaccinated.

In an effort to dispel fears of vaccines, the Malakannan Palace announced that President Rodrigo Duterte would personally take the lead in promoting the safety and importance of vaccines.