Nigeria, Dec. 1 -- Global immunisation efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

WHO noted that nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine over the past 24 years, yet the virus infected an estimated 11 million people in 2024 alone.

The report shows that about 95,000 people, most of them children under the age of five, died from measles in 2024.

While this represents one of the lowest annual death tolls since 2000, WHO says every death from a disease preventable with a highly effective, low-cost vaccine remains "unacceptable."

"Measles is the world's most contagious virus, and these data show once again how it will exp...