
Measles is a renewed global threat after 22 million babies missed their vaccines during the pandemic, CDC warns
CNN
The global threat of measles has become worse after 22 million babies missed their vaccinations because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CDC AND WHO warned Wednesday.
Measles is one of the most contagious viruses known and still kills more than 60,000 people a year, mostly young children. But it killed more than a million a year as recently as 2000.

More than two decades ago, on January 24, 2004, I landed in Baghdad as a legal adviser, assigned an office in what was then known as the Green Zone. It was raining and cold, and my duffle bag was thrown into a puddle off the C-130 aircraft that had just done a corkscrew dive to reach the runway without risk of ground fire. Young American soldiers greeted me as we piled into a vehicle, sped out of the airport complex and then along a road called the “Highway of Death” due to car bombs and snipers.












