Measles is an acute, highly contagious viral disease caused by measles virus and transmitted primarily respiratory droplets or airborne spray to mucous membranes in the upper tract conjunctiva. one of vaccine preventable diseases but usually causes outbreaks especially among unvaccinated population.  The aim this study was investigate outbreak identify associated factors Basso Liben district Et...

Background: Childhood vaccination rates in Nigeria are among the lowest in the world and this affects morbidity and mortality rates. A 2011 mixed methods study in two states in Nigeria examined coverage of measles vaccination and reasons for not vaccinating children. Methods: A household survey covered a stratified random cluster sample of 180 enumeration areas in Bauchi and Cross River States....

BACKGROUND Childhood vaccination rates in Nigeria are among the lowest in the world and this affects morbidity and mortality rates. A 2011 mixed methods study in two states in Nigeria examined coverage of measles vaccination and reasons for not vaccinating children. METHODS A household survey covered a stratified random cluster sample of 180 enumeration areas in Bauchi and Cross River States....

Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease but occasionally it poses risk of serious and life-threatening illnesswith high rate communicability if contracted by unvaccinated persons. At the end Edo period (1603–1867) in 1862, major outbreak measles occurred. that time, many ukiyo-e (color woodblock prints) artworks were produced called “measles pictures”, which described how to deal with measles....

BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, measles case-based surveillance was introduced in 2004 as one strategy for measles control by laboratory confirmation of suspected cases. In this article, epidemiological distribution of laboratory-confirmed measles cases were reported from the Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia between 2007 and 2014, as the region is one of the highly m...

Increased mortality in children with mild vitamin A deficiency. Impact of vitamin A supplementa-tion on childhood mortality. A randomised controlled community trial. et al. EVectiveness of vitamin A supple-mentation in the control of young child morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Vitamin A-fortified monosodium glutamate and health, growth, and survival of children: a controlled fi...

Thirty eight patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) were investigated. Five patients who previously had measles immunoglobulin M (IgM) detected in unfractionated serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) had measles IgM exclusively in the low molecular weight (LMW) fractions of serum and CSF. Measles IgM had previously not been found in unfractionated serum from 33 patients but was ...

In the Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) of Papua New Guinea (PNG) measles outbreaks have occurred regularly every 3 to 4 years since 1980. The latest was between September 1998 and March 2000. Between July 1999 and March 2000 314 children with measles were reviewed at Goroka Base Hospital. The majority of these children were very young: 55% were under 1 year and 27% under 6 months. The median a...

Despite high measles vaccination rates in the United States, imported measles cases have led to outbreaks in the United States. These outbreaks have not led to sustained measles transmission; however, with each birth cohort of children not fully vaccinated against measles, measles-susceptible individuals accumulate in the population. The total number of measles-susceptible children and adolesce...

In Malaysia, the two dose measles - mumps - rubella (MMR) vaccine was introduced in the Expanded Program on Immunization in 2002. The Ministry of Health then initiated a measles elimination strategy which included enhanced case-based surveillance with laboratory testing of all suspected cases. The objective of our study was to analyse national measles laboratory data from 2004 to 2008 to study ...