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Measles Epidemiology
Measles outbreak was exacerbated by children not vaccinated due to safety concerns
September 19th, 2006
A measles outbreak in Indiana was exacerbated by parents who refused to vaccinate their children because of safety concerns. According to recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, "Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 but remains endemic worldwide. In 2005, a 17-year-old unvaccinated girl who was incubating measles returned from Romania, creating the largest documented outbreak of measles in the United States since 1996. We conducted a case-series investigation, molecular typing of viral isolates, surveys of rates of vaccination coverage, interviews regarding attitudes toward vaccination, and cost surveys." ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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