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Ministry on measles alert

Published:Friday | May 16, 2008 | 11:01 AM

The Ministry of Health and Environment is appealing to parents to ensure that children between the ages of 1 and 18 are fully immunised.



The call comes in wake of an imported case of measles, which was detected in Kingston.



The ministry said its surveillance system indicates that a child from a European destination visiting Kingston is in infected with the disease.