Monday, 23 January 2017

PRO/EDR> Measles update (04): Australia (VI, NS), USA (CA), Netherlands

Measles -- Australia
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Since the early 1990s, the Netherlands has experienced several large measles epidemics, in 1992-94, 1999-2000, and in 2013-14. These outbreaks mainly affected orthodox Protestants, a geographically clustered population with overall lower measles-mumps-rubella 1st dose (MMR-1) vaccination coverage (60 percent) than the rest of the country (greater than 95 percent). In the 2013-14 epidemic described here, which occurred between 27 May 2013 and 12 Mar 2014, 2700 cases were

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