Moraku Tabhu, three-and-a-half years old, who suffers from measles, eats in the measles unit run by MSF at Biringi hospital. Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, November 2019. PHOTO: ALEXIS HUGUET/MSFThe measles epidemic in Democratic Republic of the Congo is epidemic is still several steps ahead of the response, humanitarian group MSF says. Since January 2019, more than 288,000 people have contracted measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and more than 5,700 have died from the disease, in the largest measles epidemic in the world today and the largest recorded in DRC for decades. DRC measles patients infect on average two to three other people, MSF says.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 28, 2019 04:52 UTC