Almost 50 cases this week: Measles numbers are rising sharply in Austria – experts are alarmed. According to the WHO, measles cases have increased by 79 percent compared to 2022.
Most cases come from North Rhine-Westphalia with 29 laboratory-confirmed cases, followed by Berlin with 16 and Saxony with 14 cases. There were recently eight infections in Bavaria. There was a measles outbreak in the Hildesheim district in 2019 with 43 cases (15 of which involved previous vaccination). A 33-year-old woman died after contracting the measles virus from her children.