While some viral diseases like COVID-19 and Ebola make headlines, most people don’t know that measles remains a leading killer of young children in many parts of the world. Right now, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing the largest outbreak of measles in a decade. In the past year alone, over 310,000 people have been infected and more than 6,000 people have died--the vast majority of them children. We sat down with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) experts Dr. Northan Hurtado and Dr. Matthew Coldiron to talk about why so many people are dying from measles when there is a safe and effective vaccine. We also discussed some of the lesser known science about measles, and what MSF is doing to stop the deadly epidemic still raging in DRC.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.
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