The recent upsurge of measles in Burkina Faso cannot be explained in terms of vaccine policy alone. Disease rates in that country declined during the 1980′s and 1990′s, at a time that estimated vaccine coverage was only 40% to 70%; while the current outbreak began despite a coverage rate of 94%.

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