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Afghanistan humanitarian crisis: Measles outbreak spreading throughout the country

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Six months after the Taliban took control Afghanistan, the health system is collapsing. Amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation, the raging measles outbreak has already infected tens of thousands and has killed more than 150 in January alone. Measles is not the only sanitary threat facing young children there, as FRANCE 24's Health Editor Julia Sieger explains.

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