in early 1990, an outbreak of measles occurred in kerman, (population 257, 284) iran. overall, 475 cases were identified and four died (case fatality ratio 5.4 per thousand). illness was limited primarily to children below 15 years of age 166 (22.3%) were in children under five, 573 (77%) between 5-14 and six (0.8%) above 15 years of age. the age of the cases ranged from five months to 35 years...

background measles is one of the main causes of death among children, especially in developing countries. although over 30 years have passed since the availability of measles vaccine; it is still uncontrolled in many countries.in iran the highest incidence of confirmed measles cases have occurred in sistan and baluchistan province. objectives this study was conducted to determine demographic an...

Introduction Worldwide, measles kills 400 people every day, more than 90% of them being under five years of age. Three out of four measles deaths happen in India, the only country that has not yet introduced a second dose of measles vaccine. Prevention of deaths due to measles is key to achieve fourth millennium development goal of reducing under-five mortality by two thirds by 2015. India’s pr...

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in the River Nile State, Sudan; known with increasing morbidity of Measles. The objective assess Measles vaccination and possibly other factors leading to abnormal high level cases. A community-based cross-sectional, using questionnaire was designed collect data, sample 183 collected, cards were viewed obtain information about status directo...

BACKGROUND In 2011 the largest measles outbreak in North America in a decade occurred in Quebec, Canada with over 700 cases. In contrast, measles activity in neighbouring province Ontario remained low (8 cases). Our objective was to determine the extent to which the difference could be explained by differing travel patterns. METHODS We explored the relationship between measles cases over 2007...

Measles is a serious public health problem and related to different socioeconomic policies characteristics in the Brazilian territory. Thus, this study aimed analyze spatial distribution of measles its relationship with sociodemographic policy variables municipality Parauapebas, year 2020. In descriptive cross-sectional work, epidemiological Basic Health Units data were obtained from Municipal ...

Genetic characterization of wild-type measles virus (MV) strains is a critical component of measles surveillance and molecular epidemiology. We have obtained complete genome sequences of six MV strains belonging to different genotypes, using random-primed next generation sequencing.

Andrea Minetti and colleagues compare measles outbreak responses from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi and argue that outbreak response strategies should be tailored to local measles epidemiology. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

a Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Institute of Infectious Diseases. b Department of Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan. c Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases. d Department of Virology III, National Institute of Infectious Diseases. e Division of Global Infectious Diseases, Departm...