KARACHI: Increasing cases of measles being reported in Karachi as more than 2000 cases of the infectious disease reported this year in Sindh so far, sources said.
Measles cases on the rise in Karachi as 900 cases reported in the city hospital among over 2000 in the province, sources at Sindh Health Department said.
“Daily four to six measles patients being reported at government hospitals,” hospital officials said.
Hospital officials said that children under five years contract measles and some children with pneumonia caused by measles have been admitted at hospitals.
A measles outbreak in Khairpur district claimed lives of seven children within a span of two days. Five children died in Sagyoon while two others lost their lives in Pir Jo Goth, officials said.
It is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.
