Somalia reports 5,700 cases of suspected measles year-to-date, more than all of 2016

Almost 30,000 young children, many of them displaced by a searing drought, are being vaccinated against measles this week in an emergency campaign in Baidoa, a town at the heart of one of Somalia's hardest-hit areas. Many of the children have never been immunized before - they come from remote areas health workers often cannot ["]

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