Forbes January 23, 2025
When I was a medical resident in South India in the 1990s, I rarely saw kids with measles. And I did not see much of polio or diphtheria or whooping cough either. None of this was a matter of luck. It was because childhood vaccination coverage in that region of India was high, and vaccines were highly effective in preventing these deadly childhood killers. Sadly, globally, childhood vaccination coverage is dropping, in part due to the health system disruptions caused by Covid-19 pandemic, and also because of increase in vaccine hesitancy. About 22 million children missed their measles vaccination in 2023. As a consequence, measles cases surged worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022.
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