A child receiving a measles vaccine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where health workers have launched an urgent vaccination campaign after nearly 2,000 people, two-thirds of them children under five, died of the preventable disease. The measles outbreak has compounded strain on the country’s health system, which is already struggling with an Ebola crisis.

First published in the July 15, 2019, 9:36 p.m. edition

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