Severe reactions following measles immunisation are rare.
Another woman, with tears in her eyes, blamed herself for not working harder to obtain a separate measles vaccine for her possibly autistic child.
Yet as water tankers filled with safe water rumble down dusty roads to bring reli ef to hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the quake, measles vaccine - harder to keep fresh and trickier to target and deliver - is getting through, too, albeit less visibly.
UNICEF is opening other forward operation centres in hard-hit areas, devising a measles campaign with the government, assisting the government install a water plant in Muzaffarabad and assessing schools and the education system in the affected area.
Combating disease in the camps "UNICEF has been working hard to ensure the vaccination of all children against measles and polio, vaccinating 94,540 children against measles and providing 206,000 doses of vaccines in the last two months," said Mr. Niameogo.
Meanwhile, the ongoing spread of the anti-vaccine message is making it harder to control the burgeoning number of measles cases.
A few drops of measles vaccine can be even harder.
According to Lernout et al., adherence to age recommendations is harder to achieve for DTP than for measles [ 1].
Children, even those in hard to reach areas, are immunised against tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza and polio.
This campaign will protect the children of Chongqing and minimize the risk of introducing measles in Sichuan province, the area hardest hit by the quake.
Looking back, it's hard to know how he would have gotten the measles.
