Brief report. Changing epidemiology of measles in Turkey: need for reassessment of measles vaccination policy?

Changing epidemiology of measles in Hong Kong from 1961 to 1990--impact of a measles vaccination program.

With the use of measles vaccine since 1967, Hong Kong has experienced a low incidence of measles until a major outbreak in 1988. A shift in the distribution of susceptible children to older age groups was suddenly accelerated in the 1988 outbreak. The attack rate increased by 18.9-fold for children greater than 10 years old, while that for those in the best-protected age group of 1-4 years was ...

A progress - Report on 18 years of continuous Measles Vaccination in Rural Areas of Iran

Mass Measles Vaccination

molecular epidemiology of measles virus before and after the 2003 mass vaccination campaign for measles/rubella in iran

background: molecular epidemiology of measles virus (mv) is important, not only to measure the success of measles vaccination programs but also to monitor the circulation and elimination of the virus worldwide. in this study, we compared mv obtained from patients before the 2003 mass vaccination mr campaign and viruses detected after 2003 until 2008 in iran. methods: the nucleoprotein (n) gene ...

Serological Epidemiology in Measles **

One usually thinks of measles as a minor childhood illness through which we all must pass and as a nuisance more than a danger. But this was not always the case. In colonial America, two hundred years ago, measles was dreaded like the plague, and today in remote parts of the world, on isolated islands and in the Arctic, it can be a devastating disease. Even here and now in the United States it ...