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MONDAY, JULY 28, 1975
SECOND ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN TO START
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THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL LAUNCH ANOTHER ANTI- MEASLES CAMPAIGN ON AUGUST 1 TO REMIND THE PUBLIC TO TAKE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES AGAINST THE DISEASE.
IT WILL BE THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF THREE ANTI-MEASLES CAMPAIGN FOR THIS YEAR, AND WILL LAST UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15.
ABOUT 20,000 CHILDREN WERE IMMUNISED DURING THE FIRST CAMPAIGN WHICH WAS HELD IN APRIL AND MAY.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT POINTED OUT THAT THERE WAS STILL A LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO REMAINED SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE DISEASE.
FREE VACCINE IS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AT ALL THE DEPARTMENT'S MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES.
THE DEPARTMENT HAD EARLIER WARNED THE PUBLIC OF THE POSSIBILITY OF AN OUTBREAK OF MEASLES EPIDEMIC LATER THIS YEAR OR IN EARLY 1976.
PAST EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT THE DISEASE DISPLAYS A DISTINCT DIENNIAL 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 STRESSED THAT TO PREVENT THE OUTBREAK OF MEASLES EPIDEMICS, PARENTS MUST ENSURE THAT THEIR CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY THOSE BETWEEN NINE MONTHS AND FIVE YEARS, HAVE BEEN IMMUNISED.
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