The UN's Humanitarian Affairs mission in Kinshasa said Monday that a measles epidemic has killed 1,145 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo since January.

This prompted the vaccination of 3.1 million children across five provinces it added.
The campaign swung into action in May after the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) deplored "the lack of reactivity" of organisations like the World Health Organisation to what it termed an "uncontrollable" epidemic.
The DR Congo is also battling cholera and polio epidemics.
Source-AFP
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