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Somalia

Emergency Humanitarian Action Weekly Highlights 9-15 April 2011

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BULLETIN HIGHLIGHTS

• Regular reports of suspected Measles cases are received from all zones of Somalia. WHO and partners plan to carry out accelerated measles vaccination activities in the Lower Shabelle region. Since January 2011, 572 suspected measles cases including 471 (82%) children under five have been reported in the Lower Shabelle region.

• With the technical guidance of WHO, an intra-cluster cholera taskforce has been established in Mogadishu after a cholera outbreak was declared on 31 March 2011.