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More than 90 children infected with measles in Osh in the first quarter of 2015

Osh, April 15 / Kabar /. 94 children infected with measles in Osh in the first quarter of 2015. Head physician of the sanitary-epidemiological center of Osh Uulkan Karataeva told. According to her data, 77 of them are infants under 1 year and 17 children aged 1 to 4 years. At the moment, special teams are formed in Osh to vaccinate children. Recall that recently in the city of Osh 23 medical students of Osh State University were infected with measles and were hospitalized.