Football supporters heading to Ukraine for European Championships urged to get vaccinated against measles "If you plan to come to Ukraine, please get vaccinated at home," the Kiev Post newspaper reported on Wednesday. "The situation with measles is unfavourable in our country," Oleksandr Kravchuk, deputy head of the state sanitary and epidemiological service, said. The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), a European Union agency in charge of fighting infectious diseases, reported a measles outbreak in the former Soviet republic last month with over 5,000 cases registered. The outbreak was concentrated in the western part of the country bordering on Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. "The epidemic is expected to accelerate and spread geographically during the peak transmission season for measles from February to June," ECDC said.