measles

The number of measles cases is skyrocketing in Europe and the disease is even surging in four countries previously considered to have eradicated it, including Greece, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. "Re-establishment of measles transmission is concerning....

According to Bulgaria’s national consultant on microbiology, Professor Todor Kantardzhiev, children under the age of one-year-old should not be brought to Greece, Romania or Serbia for fear of contracting measles. Just last week, Greece made the list as being one...

Greece has made the World Health Organization's (WHO) list as being one out of seven countries reporting over 1,000 cases of measles outbreak since the beginning of 2018. During the first six months of the year, the country saw a...

An outbreak of influenza has killed 17 people over the winter, the Greek authorities have revealed. New data from the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) also says there is an epidemic of 2,000 reported measles cases, with...

The president of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) Theofilos Rosenberg expressed concern about the measles epidemic in Greece. "The epidemic does not seem to stop as there are populations with insufficient vaccination coverage," he said in...

A 35-year-old woman who had been given a measles vaccine dose has become the third victim of the disease in Greece, after she died of pneumonia and respiratory failure. To date, as reported by the Hellenic Center for Disease Control...

One hundred new measles cases were recorded last week, bringing the total number to 1,362, with most appearing in southern Greece. The vast majority of measles cases are children from Roma communities and people from the general population, mostly in...

A new report from Greece’s National Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases says it is impossible to rule out not only a rise in measles cases but also their spread across the country. It reports that 77 new...

Greece is facing a measles epidemic this year with the number of reported cases tripling within two months, according to the National Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases (Keelpno). In late October, the first casualty of the disease...

The rise in the number of measles cases in Greece has forced the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) to issue a warning. The center says that since May, when the first cases of the epidemic appeared, there have...