In years gone by, many children were afflicted with polio, measles, mumps, Rubella, influenza, small pox, diphtheria, whooping cough and others.

在过去的岁月中，许多儿童患有小儿麻痹症，麻疹，腮腺炎，风疹，流感，天花，白喉，百日咳和其他疾病。

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In 2000, about 750,000 people, most of them children, died from measles.

在2000年大约有750 000人死于麻疹，他们大多数是儿童。

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There has been a tremendously successful program in vaccinating children against measles in Africa, so the incidence of disease and death from that has fallen dramatically.

在非洲，在对儿童进行麻疹免疫方面有一些非常成功的项目，带来了麻疹发病率和死亡率的大幅度下降。

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For example,in Zambia and Kenya, EpiSurveyor has made it easier to organize campaigns to vaccinate children against measles.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, says impressive progress has been made in areas such as treatment for HIV/AIDS, in the large number of lives saved among children under five and in significant cuts in deaths from malaria and measles.

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"These targets are set for 2015 and are to achieve at least 90 percent measles vaccination coverage nationally and 80 percent coverage in every district, reduce measles cases to less than five per million population, reduce measles mortality by U.N.health agencies have made huge strides in reducing the number of children dying from measles.

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The scientists say that the tattoo needles would never be suitable for preventative vaccines, such as measles, in children as the pain would be too great.

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Before the introduction of the MMR vaccination in 1988, some half a million children in the UK caught measles each year and about 100 died from it.

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But immunisation officials want parents elsewhere to be proactive and not wait until they see an outbreak of measles in their area before getting their children immunised.

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