Teenage measles outbreak shows shortcomings in Japan's immunisation programme

Attitudes of parents towards measles and immunisation after a measles outbreak in an anthroposophical community.

The introduction of mass immunisation against measles in the United Kingdom has seen the virtual disappearance of this disease. In some European countries with lower levels of vaccine coverage, however, deaths from measles are still common and the disease is associated with significant morbidity. In recent years adverse publicity surrounding the vaccine has depressed vaccine uptake in the Unite...

Active safety monitoring of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine in the National Immunisation Programme of Sri Lanka

Objectives This study was designed to report incidence and characteristics of selected adverse events following immunisation which have consistent causal association (AEFIc) with Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccination given at the age of one year in the National Immunisation Programme of Sri Lanka. Methods The data presented here were obtained from a cohort event monitoring study. It was car...

Outbreak response immunisation: The experience of Chad during recurrent measles epidemics in 2005 and 2010.

Despite impressive gains in measles control globally, measles epidemics continue to occur in countries with insufficient vaccination coverage. WHO guidelines now recommend outbreak response immunisation (ORI) for controlling measles outbreaks in certain contexts. The objective of this study was to describe late and early response vaccination activities during two consecutive measles outbreaks t...

Measles immunisation: results of a local programme to increase vaccine uptake.

Investigations showed that the measles immunisation programme in our health board was a failure. Surveys of health care staff and parents to determine the cause of the problem identified several aspects of concern: the immunisation of children was often left to parental initiative, with only 29% of general practitioners playing an active part in recalling children by the 15th month of age; gene...

Measles immunisation: time to close the gap.