MEASLES AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS: A POTENTIAL FOR NOSOCOMIAL OUTBREAKS.

Tuesday, 8th of October 2013 Print
[source]Euro Surveillance[|source]

In this report,  Botelho-Nevers and colleagues report on a series of measles cases among healthcare workers during 2010 outbreak in Public Hospitals of Marseilles, France. The study documents that measles amongst health workers mainly affects young adults aged between 20 and 30 years who had not been vaccinated against measles or who had received only one dose of measles-containing vaccine. Notably, post-exposure vaccination performed in the 72 hours after exposure as recommended by the national guidelines failed to prevent measles in two cases. Nearly half of staff participated in a seroprevalence study that showed that 6.5% of HCWs were susceptible to measles. All susceptible HCWs were younger than 30 years. Focusing attention on assuring measles vaccination at recruitment would be a timely intervention. More details are available at http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19764

Abstract

We report here 14 cases of measles among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Public Hospitals of Marseilles, France that occurred between April and November 2010. All cases but one were under 30 years of age. Following the identification of these cases, we checked the immune status among 154 HCWs who volunteered to take part in the study and showed that 93% and 88% were immune against measles and mumps respectively. HCWs non-immunized against measles were all under 30 years of age.

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