Measles kill more than 1,000 DRC children since January: UN

A measles epidemic has the UN humanitarian killed since January, 1.145 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo Affairs mission in Kinshasa said Monday.

The epidemic "already affected 115,600 children and killed 1,145" between January and June, the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

This prompted included vaccination of 3.1 million children in five provinces.

The campaign swung into action in may after NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) "the lack of reactivity" by organizations such as the World Health Organisation it regrets referred to as an "uncontrollable" epidemic.

The DRC is also fight against the cholera and polio epidemics.

Posted in: children,January,Measles,since