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Worldwide measles eradication target unlikely to be reached–European nations major part of the problem

by BBC News

The UK has been named as one of the worst countries in Europe for measles, with case levels dashing global hopes of eradicating the disease by 2010. The Lancet study says that in 2006-7 most of the 12,000 cases in Europe were found in the UK and four other nations

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