By Chris Harris
Measles is on the rise in parts of Europe amid a trend of high scepticism towards vaccines in some rich countries, research shows.
According to data collected by research group Civio in partnership
with Euronews, Germany alone (2,464) had four times as many incidents of
the disease as the entire American continent (611) in 2015.
Italy and the United Kingdom both suffered fresh outbreaks of the disease in 2016, official data shows.
Europe is a world leader when it comes to lacking confidence in vaccines.
In France 40 percent of respondents to the Vaccine Confidence Project’s 2016 survey said they didn’t think vaccines are safe, while in Italy, one-in-five of those questioned mistrusted them.
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Source: euronews.
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