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Case based measles surveillance in Pune evidence t ...

  Case based measles surveillance in Pune evidence to guide current and future measles control and elimination efforts in India. Bose AS1 Jafari H2 Sosler ...

Spatial clustering of measles cases during endemic ...

Good readAMINAMore images on this article can be found on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25888228BMC Infect Dis. 2015 Mar 1015121. doi 10.1186/s12879-015-0842-y. Spatial clustering ...

The role of vaccination coverage individual behavi ...

Abstract BACKGROUND Measles cases continue to occur among susceptible individuals despite the elimination of endemic measles transmission in the United States. Clustering of dise ...

Sub-acute sclerosing pan encephalitis in Papua New ...

Best ReadAMINA PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Jan 4;5(1):e932. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000932. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21245918 Sub-acute sclerosing pan encephalitis in Papua New G ...

Immunogenicity of aerosol measles vaccine given as ...

Good ReadingAMINA Vaccine. 2006 Jan 30;24(5):683-90. Epub 2005 Aug 24. Immunogenicity of aerosol measles vaccine given as the primary measles immunization to nine-month-old Mexican children ...

Measles humoral and cell-mediated immunity in chil ...

More nformation can be accessed on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300162Good readingAMINA  Abstract J Infect Dis. 2013 Feb 15;207(4):574-82. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jis719. E ...

Epidemiology of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephaliti ...

Epidemiology of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) In Germany from 2003 to 2009: A Risk Estimation. Schönberger K1 Ludwig MS Wildner M Weissbrich B. Abstract S ...

Knowledge attitudes and beliefs of school nurses a ...

Abstract OBJECTIVES We studied school personnel involved in the review of students immunization status to determine whether personnel training immunizationrelated knowledge attitudes and beliefs use ...

Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rub ...

Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data. Wesolowski A1 Metcalf CJ2 Eagle N3 Kombich J4 Grenfell BT5 Bjørnstad ON6 Lessler J7 Tatem ...

Quantifying the impact of accessibility on prevent ...

Abstract BACKGROUND: Poor physical access to health facilities has been identified as an important contributor to reduced uptake of preventive health services and is likely to be most critical in lo ...

1. Epidemiology of two large measles virus outbrea ...

Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2013 Mar;9(3):675-80. Epub 2013 Jan 9. Epidemiology of two large measles virus outbreaks in Catalonia: what a difference the month of administration of the first dose of vaccin ...

SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS IN SOUTH AFRIC ...

Abstract Between 2009 and 2011, there was an outbreak of measles throughout South Africa (SA). The largest age category infected was children <5 years of age. In 2014, four patients, with a me ...

ROOT-CAUSE ANALYTICAL SURVEY FOR MEASLES OUTBREAK: ...

Though measles is a vaccine preventable disease, outbreaks still continue to occur because of poor immunization coverage rate at the national level. OBJECTIVE: To report the survey results of an out ...

MEASLES IN INDIA: CHALLENGES & RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ...

Measles is an infectious disease caused by Morbillivirus, with a secondary attack rate in excess of 80%, that usually affects children (1). However, multiple outbreaks of the disease have even been re ...

Global Change and Public Health: Addressing the Ec ...

GLOBAL CHANGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH: ADDRESSING THE ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH Full text is at http://www.cpha.ca/uploads/policy/edh-brief.pdf Ten key messages 1. We live in a socio‐eco logic ...

In celebration of the Jesuit powder: a history of ...

In celebration of the Jesuit powder: a history of malaria treatment Natalie Harrison Published Online: 10 August 2015 The Lancet Infectious Diseases,Volume 15, No. 10, p1143, October 2015 DOI: htt ...

From Public to Planetary Health: A Manifesto

From public to planetary health: a manifesto Richard Horton et al. From TheLancet.com This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health a ...

SYNTHESIS OF EVIDENCE TO CHARACTERIZE NATIONAL MEA ...

Population immunity depends on the dynamic levels of immunization coverage that countries achieve over time and any transmission of viruses that occur within the population that induce immunity. In th ...

SAFETY OF MEASLES-CONTAINING VACCINES IN 1-YEAR-OL ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: All measles-containing vaccines are associated with several types of adverse events, including seizure, fever, and immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP). Because the me ...

USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO INCREASE VACCINATION ...

USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO INCREASE VACCINATION POLICY EFFECTIVENESS 1.     Cornelia Betsch⇑1 2.     Robert Böhm2 3.     Gr ...Source: Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2015, Vol. 2(1) 61–73 © The Author(s) 2015 DOI: 10.1177/2372732215600716 bbs.sagepub.com

AN OUTBREAK OF MEASLES IN AN UNDERVACCINATED COMMU ...

AN OUTBREAK OF MEASLES IN AN UNDERVACCINATED COMMUNITY. Gahr P1, DeVries AS2, Wallace G3, Miller C2, Kenyon C2, Sweet K2, Martin K2, White K2, Bagstad E4,  ...Source: Pediatrics. 2014 Jul;134(1):e220-8. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-4260. Epub 2014 Jun 9

THREATS TO POLIO ERADICATION IN HIGH-CONFLICT AREA ...

Dr Gillian K SteelFisher, PhD,  Robert J Blendon, ScD,  Sherine Guirguis, MSc,  Amanda Brulé, MA,  Narayani Lasala-Blanco, PhD,  Michael Coleman, MA,  Vincent ...

SB 277, California Politics, and the Theories of D ...

  The herd strikes back. From “The Economist” print edition http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21666217-californias-anti-vaccine-brigade-and-dark-side-individualism-thunde ...

Public Health Interventions to Reduce the Secondar ...

Public Health Interventions to Reduce the Secondary Spread of Measles Full text is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0078260/pdf/PubMedHealth_PMH0078260.pdf  This extensive literat ...

The economic burden of sixteen measles outbreaks o ...

The economic burden of sixteen measles outbreaks on United States public health departments in 2011 Ortega-Sanchez IR1, Vijayaraghavan M2, Barskey AE2, Wallace GS2. 1Centers for Disease Contr ...

Economics of Measles and Rubella: Time to Become I ...

Kimberly Thompson shows the contrast between "high control" strategies, the current paradigm, and time limited eradication.Presentation from the annual meeting of the Measles and Rubella Initiative, W ...

MMWR Report, Global Progress Toward Rubella and Co ...

Global Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Control and Elimination — 2000–2014 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 25, 2015 / 64(37);1052-1055 This artic ...

W.E.R., Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Co ...

Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination –global progress, 2000–2014   Gavin B. Grant,1Susan E. Reef,1Alya Dabbagh,2 Marta Gacic-Dobo,2Peter M.Strebel.2 1 Ce ...

SYSTEMIC COMORBIDITY IN CHILDREN WITH CATARACTS IN ...

SYSTEMIC COMORBIDITY IN CHILDREN WITH CATARACTS IN NIGERIA: ADVOCACY FOR RUBELLA IMMUNIZATION. Full article on web page; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351577   Duke R1, Oparah S2, Adio ...

VACCINE HESITANCY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND A CAL ...

VACCINE HESITANCY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND A CALL TO ACTION. Full article web page; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26337116   Salmon DA1, Dudley MZ2, Glanz JM3, Omer SB4. Author informa ...

QUANTIFYING SEASONAL POPULATION FLUXES DRIVING RUB ...

QUANTIFYING SEASONAL POPULATION FLUXES DRIVING RUBELLA TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS USING MOBILE PHONE DATA. Full article web page; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26283349   Wesolowski A1, Metcal ...

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATES OF CRUDE AND EFFECTIVE COVER ...

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATES OF CRUDE AND EFFECTIVE COVERAGE OF MEASLES IMMUNIZATION IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS: FINDINGS FROM SALUD MESOAMÉRICA 2015. Full Article web page; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ...

COMPARING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION EFFECTS ...

COMPARING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION EFFECTS OF MEASLES VACCINATION STRATEGIES IN ETHIOPIA: AN EXTENDED COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS. Full article webpage; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/261 ...

PROGRESS TOWARD MEASLES ELIMINATION - SOUTH-EAST A ...

PROGRESS TOWARD MEASLES ELIMINATION - SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION, 2003-2013. Full article webpage; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26068565 Thapa A, Khanal S, Sharapov U, Swezy V, Sedai T, Dabbagh A, ...

DIFFERENCES IN ESTABLISHMENT OF PERSISTENCE OF VAC ...

DIFFERENCES IN ESTABLISHMENT OF PERSISTENCE OF VACCINE AND WILD TYPE RUBELLA VIRUSES IN FETAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS. Full article website; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26177032   Perelygina ...

TRENDS AND MORTALITY EFFECTS OF VITAMIN A DEFICIEN ...

TRENDS AND MORTALITY EFFECTS OF VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY IN CHILDREN IN 138 LOW-INCOME AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES BETWEEN 1991 AND 2013: A POOLED ANALYSIS OF POPULATION-BASED SURVEYS. Full article Websi ...

RISK FACTORS FOR DELAY IN AGE-APPROPRIATE VACCINAT ...

RISK FACTORS FOR DELAY IN AGE-APPROPRIATE VACCINATIONS AMONG GAMBIAN CHILDREN Odutola A1, Afolabi MO2, Ogundare EO3, Lowe-Jallow YN4, Worwui A5, Okebe J6, Ota MO7,8. 1Medical Research Council Unit, ...

RUBELLA EPIDEMIOLOGY IN AFRICA IN THE PREVACCINE E ...

RUBELLA EPIDEMIOLOGY IN AFRICA IN THE PREVACCINE ERA, 2002–2009 James L. Goodson1, Balcha Masresha2, Annick Dosseh3, Charles Byabamazima4, Deogratias Nshimirimana2, Stephen Cochi1 and Susan Ree ...

COMPARING MEASLES WITH PREVIOUS ERADICATION PROGRA ...

“The most daunting challenges for global measles eradication include the following: Key measles-endemic countries are at war. . ., and the world is more heavily armed than ever. Terroris ...

MEASLES OUTBREAK IN DR CONGO AN "EPIDEMIC EMERGENC ...

  MEASLES OUTBREAK IN DR CONGO AN “EPIDEMIC EMERGENCY” John Maurice From The Lancet In high-income countries, measles is generally seen as a mild ailment. An epidemic raging in eq ...

MEASLES-RUBELLA MINI-SYMPOSIUM, OCTOBER 2015, DECA ...

Organized by the Sabin Vaccine InstituteDetails are at  http://www.sabin.org/updates/events/4th-measles-rubella-mini-symposium

MEASLES REEMERGENCE IN CEARA, NORTHEAST BRAZIL, 15 ...

MEASLES REEMERGENCE IN CEARÁ, NORTHEAST BRAZIL, 15 YEARS AFTER ELIMINATION (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/9/15-0391_article#comment) To the Editor: Measles was endemic in Brazil before ...

COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF ROUTINE IMMUNIZATIO ...

"The benefit of SIA was 5601 measles cases averted and 6955 additional DALYs averted. Cost per vaccinated child for SIA (442 FCFA) was lower than for RI (1242 FCFA), in line with previous data from th ...

GLOBAL TRAVEL PATTERNS AND RISK OF MEASLES IN ONTA ...

GLOBAL TRAVEL PATTERNS AND RISK OF MEASLES IN ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, CANADA: 2007-2011 Excerpt below; full text, with figures, is at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/15/341 Background In 2011 th ...

IMMUNITY TO MEASLES, MUMPS AND RUBELLA IN US CHILD ...

IMMUNITY TO MEASLES, MUMPS, AND RUBELLA IN US CHILDREN WITH PERINATAL HIV INFECTION OR PERINATAL HIV EXPOSURE WITHOUT INFECTION Siberry GK1, Patel K2, Bellini WJ3, Karalius B2, Purswani MU4, Burchett ...

EXPLAINING SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF MEASLES IN NIG ...

EXPLAINING SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF MEASLES IN NIGER USING NIGHTTIME LIGHTS IMAGERY N. Bharti1,2,*, A. J. Tatem3,4,10, M. J. Ferrari5,6, R. F. Grais7,8, A. Djibo9, ...

QUANTIFYING SEASONAL POPULATION FLUXES DRIVING R ...

  QUANTIFYING SEASONAL POPULATION FLUXES DRIVING RUBELLA TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS USING MOBILE PHONE DATA Amy Wesolowski et al.  Excerpt below; full text is at http://www.pnas.org/content/ea ...

MEASLES SEROPREVALENCE IN CHIRADZULU DISTRICT, MAL ...

MEASLES SEROPREVALENCE IN CHIRADZULU DISTRICT, MALAWI: IMPLICATIONS FOR EVALUATING VACCINE COVERAGE Excerpt below; full text, with figures, is at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026 ...

OUR BEST SHOT

In the wake of the Disneyland measles epidemic, much discussion has gone into the area of vaccine hesitancy. Here is an article on the subject, from Johns Hopkins Public Health. http://magazine.jhsph ...

ADDRESSING PARENTAL VACCINE CONCERNS: ENGAGEMENT, ...

ADDRESSING PARENTAL VACCINE CONCERNS: ENGAGEMENT, BALANCE, AND TIMING Jason M. Glanz,  Courtney R. Kraus,  Matthew F. Daley Published: August 7, 2015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.10 ...

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF WILD-TYPE MEASLES VIRUSES: IM ...

GENETIC DIVERSITY OF WILD-TYPE MEASLES VIRUSES: IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL MEASLES ELIMINATION PROGRAMS W. J. Bellini and P. A. Rota Abstract below; full text is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti ...

REVEALING NEW MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION ROUTES ...

  REVEALING NEW MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION ROUTES BY USE OF SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF PHOSPHOPROTEIN AND HEMAGGLUTININ GENES Julia R. Kessler1, Jacques R. Kremer1, Sergey V. Shu ...

EXTENSIVE NOSOCOMIAL TRANSMISSION OF MEASLES ORIGI ...

EXTENSIVE NOSOCOMIAL TRANSMISSION OF MEASLES ORIGINATING IN CRUISE SHIP PASSENGER, SARDINIA, ITALY, 2014 (http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/8/14-1105_article#comment )   Antonietta Filia&nb ...

INVESTIGATION OF A MEASLES OUTBREAK IN CHINA TO ID ...

INVESTIGATION OF A MEASLES OUTBREAK IN CHINA TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN VACCINATION COVERAGE, ROUTES OF TRANSMISSION, AND INTERVENTIONS   Xiang Zheng,  Ningjing Zhang,  Xiaos ...

MEASLES VACCINATION COVERAGE AND CASES AMONG VACCI ...

MEASLES VACCINATION COVERAGE AND CASES AMONG VACCINATED PERSONS Best viewed at http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/8/15-0284_article To the Editor: In December 2014, a measles outbreak that had ...

THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL IMMUNITY AND AGE STRUCTURE ...

THE EFFECTS OF MATERNAL IMMUNITY AND AGE STRUCTURE ON POPULATION IMMUNITY TO MEASLES A. McKee, M. J. Ferrari, and K. Shea Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 208 Mue ...

COMPARING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION EFFECTS ...

COMPARING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION EFFECTS OF MEASLES VACCINATION STRATEGIES IN ETHIOPIA: AN EXTENDED COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS Driessen J , et al. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art ...

RISK OF FEBRILE SEIZURE AFTER MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELL ...

RISK OF FEBRILE SEIZURE AFTER MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA-VARICELLA VACCINE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS Ma SJ1, Xiong YQ1, Jiang LN1, Chen Q2. 1Department of Epidemiology, School of Publ ...

MEASLES IN CANADA BETWEEN 2002 AND 2013

MEASLES IN CANADA BETWEEN 2002 AND 2013 Gaston De Serres1,2, Shalini Desai3, Amanda Shane3, Joanne Hiebert3, Manale Ouakki1 and Alberto Severini3 - Author Affiliations 1.    &nb ...

A FORGOTTEN EPIDEMIC THAT CHANGED MEDICINE: MEASLE ...

A FORGOTTEN EPIDEMIC THAT CHANGED MEDICINE: MEASLES IN THE US ARMY, 1917–18 The  Lancet Infectious Diseases,Volume 15, No. 7, p852–861, July 2015 Prof David M Morens, MD,Prof Jeffer ...