BBC NEWS | Health | Global measles deaths fall by 48%: "The number of people dying of measles across the world has fallen by almost half, the latest figures show.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund revealed deaths fell from 871,000 in 1999 to 454,000 in 2004.
The largest reduction occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, which had been hardest hit by the disease, where cases and deaths dropped by 60%.
Vaccination has been cited as the reason for the fall in cases.
The organisations made a pledge in 2001 to cut deaths in measles by half by 2005"
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