Circle the area on this map
C. The Indian Ocean island is among Africa’s poorest countries, and in 2017 only 58 percent of the population had been vaccinated against measles. About 2.2 million of the nation’s 26 million people have received vaccinations in an emergency program during the current measles outbreak.
D. The governor of Washington declared the health emergency on Jan. 25. Washington is one of 18 states that allow non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccinations, creating geographical "hotspots" where children are more vulnerable to preventable disease outbreaks. Michigan, Texas and Utah also have been identified with multiple hotspots.
D. Health workers immunizing people against polio in those nations were shot and killed by Muslim militants who claimed the vaccine programs were CIA plots or that they would sterilize people. Some of the skepticism has been blamed on the CIA using a sham hepatitis B vaccination project while tracking down terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
D. Public health researchers say that a vaccination rate of at least 95 percent is needed to prevent a measles outbreak. The rate in Washington state is 90 percent. It is much, much lower in poor nations where the measles kills tens of thousands every year and causes complications including blindness, brain swelling and pneumonia.