Philippines measles outbreak is deadliest yet as vaccine scepticism spurs disease comeback

Seventy people, most of them children, have died of measles in the Philippines since the start of 2019,1 the country’s health ministry has said, as many as were killed by the virus in the entire World Health Organization European region in all of 2018.2 There were over 18 000 cases of measles in the Philippines in 2018, compared with about 2400 in 2017. Measles vaccination rates fell from a 2014 high of 88% to 73% in 2017, then plummeted to...