Mongolia becomes the country of measles-free as it has been certified by WHO on June 26^th. In Mongolia immunization the population with vaccine against measles (Ulaanburkhan in Mongolian) was practiced since 1973. As result of efforts focused on the cases of measles, Mongolia recognized as measles-free country by the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization presented a certificate to Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag by Dr Mark Jacobs, Director of the Division of Combating Communicable Diseases in the WHO Western Pacific Region that verifying the country could prevent from measles spread during a ceremony in Ulaanbaatar on June 26^th.

According to a WHO report, Mongolia has experienced no lab-confirmed or epidemiologically linked cases since 2010, when last seven clinically confirmed cases of measles occurred.

During the ceremony presenting the certificate, Dr Dr Mark Jacobs said that Mongolia becomes one of the first countries in the western pacific region to be certificated as measles-free along with three other countries such as Australia, South Korea and Macao among 37 countries and added that preventing communicative disease spread is not depend on a country`s development level but it depends on result of immunization efforts  and specific system.