Whooping Cough Cases Increase in Western Kazakhstan

Measles cases have reached 1,302, which is 2.7 times higher than the 477 cases reported last year, according to Nurlybek Musstayev, the deputy head of the sanitary and epidemiological control department of West Kazakhstan.

Of which 822 or 63.1% are children under 14, 164 or 12.5% are toddlers under 12 months old. To note 796 people or 61.1% were unvaccinated, The Caspian Post reports citing Kazakh media.

52 whooping cough cases were detected that is 4.3 times more against 2023 with 12. Of which 51 are children under 14 and one adult. 48 children or 92.3% were unvaccinated against measles. However, this January reported a decrease in diseases. There were only 2 measles and 3 whopping cough cases in the region.

Last year confirmed 3 epidemic parotitis and 3 meningococcal diseases in the region.

He added the sanitary and epidemiological situation in West Kazakhstan remains stable at large. No cholera, plague, typhoid fever, rubella, diphtheria, intermittent cramp, malaria, poliomyelitis and botulism were recorded in the region.

As written before, whooping cough cases skyrocketed in E Kazakhstan.