Measles Vaccine Acceptance and Coverage among Families with Children less than five years in Banadir Area, Mogadishu, Somalia.

Measles, one of the most infectious viral diseases of humans affecting >95% of exposed individuals in the absence of vaccination, is spread by the respiratory route and remains major cause of mortality in children, particularly in developing countries (Hope Simpson, 1952; van den Ent et al., 2011). Although other primates are also susceptible to measles and develop similar clinical disease, these populations are not large enough to support sustained transmission of the virus and thus humans are the only natural reservoir (Griffin, 2007)