Experts believe that due to the hostilities in Ukraine million children threatened by epidemics of dangerous diseases, which Europe did not know for decades. About it writes the log.


their vision of Ukrainian children have the opportunity to suffer from a number of severe infections that have the ability to cause paralysis, or even death. Among them, experts have called polio, rubella, mumps and diphtheria. The reason for that is the dramatic decline in vaccinations conducted to a level that Experts call " zero ". Whereas, every year in Ukraine there are about five hundred thousand births, number of children, who are threatened by a dangerous disease caused by the war, reaches three million.

"A country under a military conflict, most at risk of such epidemics. We are in fear of the expected disease outbreaks and surprised, because it's up to the present moment was not " - said the head of the world health organization of the UN in Ukraine Dorit Nitzan.

the journal also emphasizes that due to the military conflict, millions of people had to leave their homes and move to camps for internally displaced People. Experts say that in these camps the infection spread very quickly.

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