Measles' mortality rate can be as high as 1 in 100 in developing countries, despite the global average being much rarer.
(Photo: CHOC Children's Blog)
By Sapeer Mayron
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14 October 2019, 10:02PM
A one-year-old boy who had been for a week confined to a Moto’otua Hospital isolation unit for patients "highly suspected" of having measles died on Sunday afternoon.
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