The Department of Health has intensified its national measles vaccination campaign across primary schools and creches. ECRNewsWatch Measles
It says the number of laboratory confirmed cases among children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years has been rising weekly.
Experts at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases say there've been 506 confirmed measles in the country since October."All the five districts in the province of Limpopo experienced the outbreak of measles. The City of Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni and some parts of Mpumalanga, Free State and the North West.
"Because you just don't go to school and immunize any child without the consent or permission of the parent or caregivers."
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