Kathmandu, April 13 -- The vaccination status of most infected people, including children in the recent measles outbreaks in Sarlahi and several local units of Baglung, was unknown. Health workers deployed for case investigation and vaccination reported that parents of infected people could neither present vaccination cards nor confirm whether their children had received the measles vaccine.

Health facilities of the respective local units and districts also could not present proof of immunisation.

"Recent outbreaks of the measles virus could be the result of a long gap in vaccination," said Dr Shyam Raj Upreti, an immunisation expert and former director general of the Department of Health Services. "This is also an equity issue, all chi...