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The girl died of complications, writes on her Facebook page the Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine Oksana Sivak.
For the life of the child physicians fought to the end, but the girl could not be saved. The dead girl was not vaccinated against measles, the deputy minister said..
"Disease can be prevented - vaccination is the only reliable and safe way of preventing. And vaccines in sufficient quantities, "- said Oksana Sivak.
Physicians say that any person who does not have immunity can become infected with measles. Measles are transmitted by airborne droplets. The incubation period averages 10 days. The main symptoms are high fever, runny nose, cough, rash, sometimes vomiting and diarrhea. Often complicated by pneumonia.
Let's remind, the Odessa area on the second place in Ukraine on disease of measles.