Sabah targets immunisation amid measles outbreak

Highly contagious: Measles could spread between four days before and after the onset of the ‘measle-like’ rash.

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Health Department is now providing targeted immunisation to children in places affected by a measles outbreak here after it was found that more than 80% of those infected had not been vaccinated against the disease.

This is after 45 cases were reported last month, with another seven this year up to the second epidemiology week, putting the overall cases at 52.