Measles in health care facilities: some salutary lessons.

Measles transmission occurs readily in health care facilities such as general practices and hospitals. It can not only lead to measles in other patients at the facilities but also to measles in medical and nursing staff. In the recent (1999) measles outbreak in Victoria, four of the 62 cases were health care workers. 1 A further obvious concern in health care facilities is that those exposed may include immunocompromised patients or very young children, two groups in whom measles can be very severe.