Ongoing measles outbreak in Romania, 2011

A Stanescu; D Janta; E Lupulescu; G Necula; M Lazar; G Molnar; A Pistol

doi:10.2807/ese.16.31.19932-en

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Ongoing measles outbreak in Romania, 2011

A Stanescu^1,2, D Janta^1,2, E Lupulescu³, G Necula³, M Lazar³, G Molnar⁴, A Pistol^1,2
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Affiliations: ¹ National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania ² These authors contributed equally to this work ³ National Institute of Research and Development for Microbiology and Immunology ‘Cantacuzino’ – National Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Bucharest, Romania ⁴ Ministry of Health, Bucharest, Romania

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A Stanescu
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Citation style for this article: Stanescu A, Janta D, Lupulescu E, Necula G, Lazar M, Molnar G, Pistol A. Ongoing measles outbreak in Romania, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(31):pii=19932. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.31.19932-en Received: 25 Jul 2011

Abstract

Since January 2011 Romania has been experiencing a measles outbreak with 2,072 cases notified in 29 of the 42 Romanian districts. Most cases occurred in the north-western part of the country among unvaccinated children with the highest number of cases (893 cases) registered in children aged one to four years. This report underlines once more the need for additional measures targeting susceptible populations to achieve high vaccination coverage with two doses of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.