The world is still far from reaching regional measles elimination goals as around 20.8 million children are still missing their first measles vaccine dose, it said.
More than half of these unvaccinated children live in six countries -- Nigeria (3.3 million), India (2.9 million), Pakistan (2.0 million), Indonesia (1.2 million), Ethiopia (0.9 million) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (0.7 million), the report said.
In 2016, an estimated 90 000 people died from measles, recording an 84 per cent drop from more than 550,000 deaths in 2000.
Linkins is also the branch chief of the Accelerated Disease Control and Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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This marks the first time global measles deaths have fallen below 100,000 per year, said the report by the World Health Organisation, United Nations Children's Fund, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Gavi-The Vaccine Alliance.
"Measles elimination will only be reached if measles vaccines reach every child, everywhere," Bele said.
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