Measles -- Japan
The arrival of mother and child [with measles to Lowell Community Health Center in Massachusetts] set off a chain of events and triggered longstanding but rarely tested protocols aimed at containing a measles outbreak. It involved hundreds of staff not just at the Lowell Community Health Center, but also the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), the City of Lowell Health Department, and the local hospital -- with thousands of emails and a weeklong flurry of activity that strained
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6459462&promed&0
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