In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose: 25 million children missed their first dose and an additional 14.7 million children missed their second dose, a joint publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports.
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这一下降表明全球实现和保持消除麻疹的进展出现重大挫折，并使数百万儿童容易受到感染。
This decline is a significant setback in global progress towards achieving and maintaining measles elimination and leaves millions of children susceptible to infection.
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2021年，全球估计有900万例麻疹病例和12.8万例麻疹死亡。
In 2021, there were an estimated 9 million cases and 128 000 deaths from measles worldwide.
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22个国家发生大规模破坏性疫情。
Twenty-two countries experienced large and disruptive outbreaks.
Declines in vaccine coverage, weakened measles surveillance, and continued interruptions and delays in immunization activities due to COVID-19, as well as persistent large outbreaks in 2022, mean that measles is an imminent threat in every region of the world.
“The paradox of the pandemic is that while vaccines against COVID-19 were developed in record time and deployed in the largest vaccination campaign in history, routine immunization programmes were badly disrupted, and millions of kids missed out on life-saving vaccinations against deadly diseases like measles,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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“让计划免疫规划重回正轨至关重要。
“Getting immunization programmesback on track is absolutely critical.
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本报告中的每一个统计数字背后都有一个面临患上可预防疾病风险的儿童。”
Behind every statistic in this report is a child at risk of a preventable disease.”
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这一情况相当严峻：麻疹是最具传染性的人类病毒之一，但几乎完全可以通过疫苗接种来预防。
The situation is grave: measles is one of the most contagious human viruses but is almost entirely preventable through vaccination.
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两剂含麻疹疫苗的覆盖率需要达到95%或更高，才能建立群体免疫，从而保护社区，实现并保持消除麻疹。
Coverage of 95% or greater of 2 doses of measles-containing vaccine is needed to create herd immunity in order to protect communities and achieve and maintain measles elimination.