The Health Ministry is responding to recently reported outbreaks of measles and viral hepatitis type A, with an immunological report to be drafted for the first time in fifteen years. At a press conference on Tuesday, Health Minister Tomas Drucker stated that the purpose of the report is to establish whether the Slovak population has sufficient collective immunity. Aside from viral outbreaks of hepatitis in 2017, there were six cases of adults diagnosed with measles in Bratislava, five of whom had been vaccinated against the disease in the past, suggesting that the inoculation failed to take effect. According to Drucker, this could indicate that the collective immunity of the population has declined, with the immune systems of people of certain age groups not responding to measles. The last immunological report was drafted in Slovakia in 2002 and yielded comprehensive data.
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