Measles kill more people in DR Congo than Ebola: NGO
Measles, preventable with a ワクチン, has 感染させるd over 145,000 people in the Democratic 共和国 of Congo between January and 早期に August of 2019
Measles has killed 2,758 people in the DR Congo since January, more than the Ebola 疫病／流行性の in a year, 医療の NGO Doctors Without 国境s said, and called Saturday for a "大規模な mobilisation of 基金s."
The 病気, preventable with a ワクチン, has 感染させるd over 145,000 people in the Democratic 共和国 of Congo between January and 早期に August, it said in a 声明.
"Since July, the 疫病／流行性の has より悪くするd, with a rise in new 事例／患者s 報告（する）／憶測d in several 州s," said the NGO that goes by its French acronym MSF.
"Only $2.5 million has been raised out of the $8.9 million 要求するd for the Health Cluster 返答 計画（する） -- in stark contrast with the Ebola 疫病／流行性の in the east of the country, which attracts 多重の organisations and hundreds of millions of dollars in 基金ing," it 追加するd.
MSF tweeted that without a "大規模な mobilisation of 基金s and 返答 organisations, the 現在の measles outbre ak in #DRCongo could get even worse."
The NGO said it has vaccinated 474,860 children between the ages of six months and five years since the beginning of the year, and 供給するd care to more than 27,000 measles 患者s.
In the country's east, Ebola has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd more than 1,900 lives since 爆発するing last August.
Measles is a 高度に-contagious 病気d 原因（となる）d by a ウイルス that attacks おもに children. The most serious 複雑化s 含む blindness, brain swelling, diarrhoea, and 厳しい respiratory 感染s.
Last year, 事例／患者s more than 二塁打d to almost 350,000 from 2017, によれば the World Health Organization, まっただ中に a rise in "anti-vaxxer" 感情 in some countries that can afford the ワクチン, and lagging 資源s for the preventative 手段 in poor nations.
The DR Congo 宣言するd a measles 疫病／流行性の in June.
