BAGUIO CITY — At least 40,000 children in various public and private elementary schools in this mountain resort city were given their respective anti-measles vaccination to strengthen their immune system to prevent them from being infected with the dreaded disease that could compromise their health condition.

The city government and the local health department were forced to conduct the massive anti-measles vaccination among children in the different parts of the city to mitigate the expected outbreak of the dreaded disease during the onslaught of the prolonged dry spell after a 7-month infant from a barangay in the central business district recently died due to measles.

At present, the city health services office was able to record nearly 70 measles cases in the different parts of the city although the laboratory tests to confirm such infection have yet to be released by the Regional Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM).

The anti-measles vaccination is expected to be continuously implemented in the different public and private elementary schools in the city in order to avert an outbreak of the disease in the coming months because of the continuous prevalence of the prolonged dry spell which is believed to be conducive for the spread of the virus, especially among children with low resistance.