According to a new study from the World Health Organization, measles is estimated to have killed 107,500 people in 2023, most of them under the age of five. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler talks with Hanna Nohynek, chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, who joined us from Helsinki.
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