Immunization prevents two to three million deaths every year, and could prevent another 1.5 million if vaccination programs were fully implemented.
"That means that more than one in ten are not getting all the vaccinations they need," said Kate O'Brien, head of WHO's vaccine department. There were 90,000 cases reported in Europe during the first six months of 2019, more than double the number from the same period last year. Often benign, is can nonetheless cause severe symptoms -- fever, rash, coughing -- as well as blindness and, for pregnant women, miscarriages.
"These are areas where you have more infectious disease," said Imran Khan, Wellcome Trust's head of public engagement and lead researcher for the survey.- Scepticism -
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