Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine preventable disease. Measles results in a systemic illness which causes profound immunosuppression often leading to severe complications. In 2010, the World Health Assembly declared that measles can and should be eradicated. Measles has been eliminated in the Region of the Americas, and the remaining five regions of the World Health Organization (WHO) hav...

Measles outbreaks are regularly reported in Côte d’Ivoire districts although on-going measles vaccination coverage has increased. The objective was to identify the factors associated with IgM-positive a population suspected measles. A case-control study nested national surveillance of 9337 registered cases from 2015 2019 d'Ivoire conducted for identification laboratory-confirmed...

CONTEXT National vaccine recommendations in the United States target an increasing number of vaccine-preventable diseases for reduction, elimination, or eradication. OBJECTIVE To compare morbidity and mortality before and after widespread implementation of national vaccine recommendations for 13 vaccine-preventable diseases for which recommendations were in place prior to 2005. DESIGN, SETT...

The demographic evaluation of vaccination programmes is rarely done, the most common form of evaluation consists of measuring vaccination coverage, whereas the objective is to reduce morbidity or mortality, especially for measles which is the main life-threatening pathology for African children who have not been vaccinated. Before the vaccine was available, half of the deaths of children betwee...

BACKGROUND Measles vaccination over the past 50 years has greatly reduced the incidence of measles. However, measles among migrants and the resulting changes in epidemiological characteristics have brought new challenges to the elimination of measles. We aim to describe the measles epidemic trend over the past 30 years in a central district in Shanghai, China. METHODS The present study was co...

measles is a highly contagious disease. by the end of 2013, 84% of children had received at least a single dose of measles vaccine by their second birthday, and 148 countries had included a second dose as part of routine immunization. in 2002, the iranian ministry of health and medical education developed a comprehensive strategy to eliminate measles including mass immunization campaign for peo...

BACKGROUND The low prevalence of measles antibody in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children after immune recovery as a result of highly active antiretroviral therapy increases the risk of morbidity and mortality from disease. The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of revaccination with measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in HIV-infected children w...

BACKGROUND China pledged to join the global effort to eliminate measles by 2012. To improve measles control strategy, the epidemic trend and population immunity of measles were investigated in 1951-2011 in Beijing. METHODS The changing trend of measles since 1951 was described based on measles surveillance data from Beijing Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The measles vaccinati...

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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...