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WHO Issues Measles Warning For Europe
The WHO on Friday issued a measles warning for Europe, where measles outbreaks "have caused nine deaths, including six in France, and 7,288 hospitalizations," BBC News reports. A WHO report "says there were over 26,000 measles cases in 36 European countries from January to October 2011." According to the news service, "Western European countries reported 83 percent of those cases, with 14,000 in France alone," and "[i]n England and Wales, there were just under 1,000 confirmed measles cases in that period -- compared with just 374 in the whole of 2010."
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