In a study of 7,631 cases referred to the infectious diseases hospital, Nairobi with a diagnosis of measles, 7,447 cases had the diagnosis confirmed. The overall mortality was 17.5 per 1000 cases with 43.51 of all the deaths occurring in all children less than 12 months of age. A nutritional analysis revealed that children whose weight were below 80 of the Harvard median of weight for age stayed in hospital longest and had the highest mortality rate. Measles continues to offer increasing challenge in spite of the intensive vaccination programme presently being carried out.
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