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GIS 新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1975
ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGU
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES STILL NECESSARY DESPITE GOOD RESPONSE
SOME 20,000 CHILDREN WERE 14UNISED DURING THE TWO-MONTH ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN IN APRIL AND MAY, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED DY THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTIENT TO MAKE THE PUPILIC AUARE OF THE NECESSITY TO TAKE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES AGAHIST THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
OF THESE, ADOUT 4,000 WERE INOCULATED ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 11,500 IN KOWLOON AND 4,500 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
IT WAS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGNS FOR THIS YEAR, WITH THE SECOND AND, THIRD SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST AND DECEMBER RESPECTIVELY.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID THE PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE RECENT CAMPAIGN HAD DEEN MOST ENCOURAGING.
HOWEVER, HE SAID THERE HAS STILL A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO REMAINED SUSCEPTIBLE TO MEASLES.
HE URGED PARENTS OF SUSCEPTIBLE CHILDREN BETWEEN NINE MONTHS AND FIVE YEARS TO HAVE THEM IMMUNISED IMMEDIATELY.
HE REMINDED THE PUCLIC THAT FREE VACCINE WAS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AT ALL THE DEPARTMENT'S MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES.
THE DEPARTMENT HAD EARLIER WARNED CF THE POSSIBILITY OF AN OUTBREAK OF MEASLES EPIDEMIC LATER THIS YEAR OR IN EARLY 1976.
PAST EXPERIENCES HAVE SHOWN THAT THE DISEASE DISPLAYS A DISTINCT BIENNIAL PATTERN, OCCURING IN AN EPIDEMIC FORM EVERY ALTERNATE WINTER/SPRING.
THE LAST OUTBREAK OF MEASLES WAS IN LATE 1973 AND EARLY 1974 WHEN 53 CHILDREN DIED OF THE DISEASE.
THE SPOKESMAN REITERATED THAT TO PREVENT THE CUTBREAK OF MEASLES EPIDEMICS, PARENTS MUST ENSURE THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE BEEN
UNISED.
+A SINGLE INJECTION AT THE AGE OF NINE MONTHS OR OLDER WILL GIVE LONG LASTING PROTECTION, HE SAID.
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