
Ho Chi Minh City could soon declare end of measles outbreak after year-long battle
Ho Chi Minh City 18:06 21/06/2025The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on Friday confirmed that 100 percent of its wards and communes now meet criteria to declare the measles outbreak over, following a significant decline in cases and widespread vaccination efforts.

US Health secretary Kennedy revives misleading claims of 'fetal debris' in measles shots
World 13:46 02/05/2025WASHINGTON - U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reprised various misleading claims about vaccines this week, including that the measles vaccine contains cells from aborted fetuses and the mumps vaccination does not work.

Measles, hand-foot-mouth disease widespread in southern Vietnam
Vietnam News 11:42 11/10/2018The number of cases has soared since the beginning of September, sparking fears of a nationwide outbreak

WHO calls for more measles vaccination in Europe as large outbreaks persist
World 20:00 25/02/2015Saying she was "taken aback" by high case numbers, Zsuzsanna Jakab, the U.N. health agency's European director, said the 22,149 reported cases from seven countries threatened the region's goal of eliminating measles by the end of 2015.