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The number of measles cases is skyrocketing in Europe and the disease is even surging in four countries previously considered to have eradicated it, including Greece, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. "Re-establishment of measles transmission is concerning....

According to Bulgaria’s national consultant on microbiology, Professor Todor Kantardzhiev, children under the age of one-year-old should not be brought to Greece, Romania or Serbia for fear of contracting measles. Just last week, Greece made the list as being one...

Greece has made the World Health Organization's (WHO) list as being one out of seven countries reporting over 1,000 cases of measles outbreak since the beginning of 2018. During the first six months of the year, the country saw a...

The president of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) Theofilos Rosenberg expressed concern about the measles epidemic in Greece. "The epidemic does not seem to stop as there are populations with insufficient vaccination coverage," he said in...

A 35-year-old woman who had been given a measles vaccine dose has become the third victim of the disease in Greece, after she died of pneumonia and respiratory failure. To date, as reported by the Hellenic Center for Disease Control...

One hundred new measles cases were recorded last week, bringing the total number to 1,362, with most appearing in southern Greece. The vast majority of measles cases are children from Roma communities and people from the general population, mostly in...

A new report from Greece’s National Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases says it is impossible to rule out not only a rise in measles cases but also their spread across the country. It reports that 77 new...

Greece is facing a measles epidemic this year with the number of reported cases tripling within two months, according to the National Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases (Keelpno). In late October, the first casualty of the disease...

The rise in the number of measles cases in Greece has forced the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) to issue a warning. The center says that since May, when the first cases of the epidemic appeared, there have...

An eleven-month-old infant infant has become the first victim of a new measles epidemic plaguing the country over the past few months. The baby; which was born to Roma parents, died of sepsis. As of October 26, 326 cases of...

"We are not complacent, we are on alert and we are following the instructions given by the National Vaccination Committee based on the changing map of the measles epidemic in Greece and Europe," Health Minister Andreas Xanthos stated to...

The number of measles cases continues to rise in Greece, with health experts calling for full vaccination for both children and adults. As of Thursday afternoon, 166 cases of measles were reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention...

Greece is currently in the throes of a measles epidemic that could very well spread to areas throughout the country, an expert advisor of the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention revealed in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian...

Once thriving communities in several Greek cities, about 59,000 Greek Jews were victims of the Holocaust or 83 percent of the total number living in Greece at the time of World War II and the German Occupation. Thessaloniki was the cultural...

Highlighting a disturbing trend, data published by the Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) showed that infectious incidences of infectious diseases increased by 20.5 percent in 2017. In total, 5,967 were recorded in 2017 compared to 4,951 incidents in 2016. The data...