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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Croft and Olivia Ireland

Crumbling health systems and misinformation fuelling global surge in measles, scientists warn

Declining living standards and online misinformation is fuelling a global surge in measles, experts have warned, decades after the spread of the disease was curbed by vaccination programmes.

Dr Ben Kasstan-Dabush, a medical anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, warned that a “generational decline in living standards” was among the factors behind declining immunisation rates across the world.

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