Measles threat must be dealt with swiftly

A vial containing the MMR vaccine is loaded into a syringe before being given to a 1-year-old baby at the Medical Arts Pediatric Med Group in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2015. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

AN emergent measles threat is looming large in South-East Asia, with two Asean countries, the Philippines and Indonesia, ranked in the top 10 countries with the highest number of confirmed measles cases for the period between July 2017 and June 2018. The Philippines recorded 8,992 cases, Indonesia, 4,897 cases.

Measles is a disease that can kill.