Spread of Measles in Israel - Ministry of Health Appeals to the Public

The Ministry of Health is updating that since the beginning of the outbreak, five unvaccinated children have been hospitalized in intensive care after contracting measles, while 50 people have been diagnosed with measles so far, with the source of infection for some of them unknown. Most of the patients (over 90%) are children under the age of 18, with most of them not vaccinated at all and the rest vaccinated with only one dose. In total, since…