EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF MEASLES INFECTION AT THE PRESENT STAGE

Abstract

Before being introduced into clinical practice in the 1960s. measles vaccine, measles has been one of the leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide, with more than 2 million deaths annually. In 2012, a new Global Strategic Plan for Measles Control began.However, it has not been possible to achieve the elimination of measles or maintain the achieved status at the regional level, and in recent years there has been an alarming increase in the number of cases of measles and deaths from it around the world, while sometimes cases of importation of infection in the presence of even small groups of unvaccinated people lead to the occurrence of large outbreaks of the disease.The article describes some of the epidemiological features of measles infection in Uzbekistan at the present stage.