Measels OutBreak in Niger
Disease
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedCases of measles have been on the rise since the start of the year in the three health districts of Mirriah (Zinder region), Abala and Balleyara (Tillabéri region).
- How many affectedAffected persons: 1,221
- What help is neededRegional health authorities and their partners are providing emergency medical care to those affected.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Cases of measles have been on the rise since the start of the year in the three health districts of Mirriah (Zinder region), Abala and Balleyara (Tillabéri region). In the first two months of 2021 alone, 1,221 suspected measles cases have been registered nationwide, compared to 2,798 cases recorded in 2020. This represents almost half of the 2020 caseload (44%). According to local authorities in the Tillabéri region, some 80% of the infections are among children below four years; almost half of whom are in the Abala health district. These cases include children who had not been vaccinated and those suffering from malnutrition. Regional health authorities and their partners are providing emergency medical care to those affected.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 1 human-impact figure was separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 1,221 retained at 2021-03-10
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Verified
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