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More Than 700 Children Have Died in a Measles Outbreak in Zimbabwe

NYT – It is driven by a decline in child immunization during the pandemic and the influence of an anti-vaccination evangelical church. As of Sept. 6, the country’s Ministry of Health and Child Care was reporting more than 6,500 cases and 704 deaths. It has not released numbers since then.

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