MANILA, Philippines --- The World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments to intensify their campaigns on raising awareness on the importance of vaccination, especially since preliminary global data showed measles cases in the first quarter of the year had already risen by 300 percent. Based on WHO's provisional data as of April, 112,163 measles cases have already been reported worldwide, an increase of around 300 percent from last year's 28,124 cases. The top 10 countries that recorded a high number of measles cases are Madagascar, Ukraine, India, Brazil, the Philippines, Venezuela, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. According to the WHO, measles is "almost entire...
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