Kyrgyzstan measles 2025: More than 8,000 cases, No outbreak declared yet
Kyrgyzstan health officials report as of June 17, 8,211 measles cases, including 982 laboratory confirmed cases, 3,590 clinically confirmed cases and 3,639 epidemiologically related cases. Nine deaths have been reported.
Cases are distributed as follows: Osh city - 549 cases, Chui region - 962 cases, Talas region- 201 cases, Naryn region - 142 cases, Batken region - 265 cases; Osh oblast - 629 cases, Jalal-Abad region - 467 cases and Issyk-Kul region 107 cases.
Jalal-Abad region is emerging as the next most affected region after Bishkek city, Osh and Chui regions, with 467 confirmed cases of measles reported as of June 17.
Despite the large number of cases, the government of the Kyrgyz Republic has not officially declared an outbreak.
The primary cause of the ongoing measles situations in the country is the large number of susceptible children who have not received full vaccination doses according to the national immunization schedule.
The Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic report that the majority of them (94 per cent, or 7,724 people) were not vaccinated and only 6 per cent were vaccinated. A closer analysis shows that of those who were vaccinated, 3 per cent or 274 patients received one dose of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella and 3 per cent or 213 patients received two doses of the MMR vaccine, which shows the protective nature of the full dose of vaccination.