Health sector response mounted, including preparations for targeted vaccine campaign
FREETOWN, June 14 2018 - The Ministry of Health and Sanitation today declared a measles outbreak in Falaba district in the northern part of Sierra Leone. There have been a total of 19 confirmed cases this week in the Chiefdoms of Sulima (14 cases) and Mongo (5 cases), close to the border with Guinea.
A measles outbreak is defined as three or more laboratory confirmed cases in a community or district in one month.