Two infants, aged four and eight months, have lost their lives in the latest outbreak of measles in Albania, a disease long forgotten that reappeared in the country last January.

Measles had not been present in the country since a massive vaccination campaign was conducted a decade ago – until January, when a four-month-old baby died of it in the Mother Theresa Hospital in Tirana.

Albania’s Public Health Institute now says some 352 children have been identified as infected and cases are being registered in almost every part of the country.