Measles

A 20-year-old man from Belgrade has died in a hospital's intensive care unit from complications caused by measles, RTS is reporting.

He is the first victim of measles in Serbia. The patient had not been inoculated against the infectious disease.

He is the first victim of measles in Serbia. The patient had not been inoculated against the infectious disease.

Since October, a total of 630 persons in central Serbia and in Serb-majority areas in Kosovo and Metohija contracted the disease, the Public Health Institute Batut announced on Tuesday.

More than 700 cases of measles have been registered at hospitals across the country, mainly in Attica, since May this year, according to the latest data released by health authorities. 

A second person has died from measles in Greece this year. It was revealed that a 17-year-old boy died at the University Hospital in Rio, near the western port city of Patra, last Friday.

The youngster suffered a brain inflammation after contracting the disease from members of his family.

He had not been vaccinated.

A measles epidemic that started in May is showing no sign of abating, the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) has warned.

The center says that of the 524 cases recorded until last Thursday, 47 were in that week.

The majority of cases have been recorded in Attica and the Peloponnese, and mainly among Roma children who have not been vaccinated.

The Italian Constitutional Court validated a bill voted this summer, which makes it compulsory to place 10 vaccines to enroll children in school, the agencies said. Vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, measles, etc. become mandatory in order for a child under the age of 6 to be enrolled in the kindergarten.

The Institute of Public Health of Serbia on Wednesday reported an epidemic of measles in the city of Belgrade.

This came after tests confirmed the presence of the virus in five patients.

The City Public Health Institute of Serbia has reported an epidemic of measles in the city of Belgrade.

This came after tests confirmed the presence of the virus in five patients.

Seven in 10 cases of measles reported to the Center of Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) in the period from May to October this year, or 265 of a total of 368 cases, affected Greek Roma, and the majority contracted the disease in camps in the Attica region and the Peloponnese, data have shown.

A patient from Kosovska Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, who was visiting Kragujevac, central Serbia, has developed the symptoms of measles, it has been confirmed.

The daily Vecernje Novosti writes that this is the second case of the spread of the disease from Kosovo and Metohija, since an epidemic of measles was reported there.