OBJECTIVES First, to determine the prevalence of measles non-immunity in a group of health care workers (HCW), and secondly, to investigate what pre-employment screening for measles is carried out by NHS occupational health departments. METHODS Two hundred and eighteen HCWs with patient contact on the medical wards at Addenbrooke's hospital provided an oral fluid sample and answered a questio...

BACKGROUND Measles remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries. Due to the success of the measles mortality reduction and elimination efforts thus far, the WHO has raised the question of whether global eradication of measles is economically feasible. METHODS The cost-effectiveness of various measles mortality reduction and eradication scenarios wa...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this report is to describe a measles cluster involving health-care workers (HWCs) that occurred in a teaching hospital in central Italy during winter 2011 and the efforts made to promptly identify all the susceptible contacts in order to stop, as soon as possible, transmission of the infection within the hospital. METHODS An epidemiological investigation took place. The ...

Vitamin A treatment reduces mortality during acute measles infection, and vitamin A supplementation (VAS) to children above 6 months of age may reduce the incidence of measles infection. The effect of VAS at birth on measles incidence is unknown. In a randomised placebo-controlled trial in Guinea-Bissau, normal-birth-weight newborns were randomised to 50 000 IU (15 mg) VAS or placebo. During th...

BACKGROUND Measles cases may cluster in densely populated urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa as susceptible individuals share spatially dependent risk factors and may cluster among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children despite high vaccination coverage. METHODS Children hospitalized with measles at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, Zambia were enrolled in the s...

Measles — Continued For the first time since measles reporting began in 1912, no measles cases have been reported in the United States for 3 consecutive weeks (November 7–Novem-ber 27 [weeks 45–47], 1993). In addition, no cases have been reported with onset since September 22 that were not directly linked with importations. Of the provisional total of 277 measles cases reported in 1993 through ...

OBJECTIVE The current policy of measles vaccination at 9 months of age was decided in the mid-1970s. The policy was not tested for impact on child survival but was based on studies of seroconversion after measles vaccination at different ages. The authors examined the empirical evidence for the six underlying assumptions. DESIGN Secondary analysis. DATA SOURCES AND METHODS These assumptions...

Measles remains an important cause of child mortality, although the numbers of measles-related deaths has decreased during the last decade [1] through childhood immunisation programmes and follow-up measles vaccine campaigns. In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a global plan to further reduce measles mortality in the years 2006–2...

BACKGROUND Because measles vaccination prevents acute measles disease and morbidities secondary to measles, such as undernutrition, blindness, and brain damage, the vaccination may also lead to higher educational attainment. However, there has been little evidence to support this hypothesis at the population level. In this study, we estimate the causal effect of childhood measles vaccination on...

A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on blood samples (n=200)collected from children of 1 to 10 years age, selected by convenient sampling method. Differentcoupling agents were used bind measles antigen with erythrocyte suspensions differentconcentrations collected different species for standardization Indirect Hemagglutination Assay(IHA) which then testing serum the detection and ...