Measles in health-care settings

Immune status of health care workers to measles virus: evaluation of protective titers in four measles IgG EIAs

“…Health care workers (HCW) are at substantially higher risk than the general population for becoming infected with measles. This is due to their professional duties and the re-emergence of measles in several developed countries causing an increasing number of hospital admissions for measles [1][2][3][4][5][6]. When infected, HCW constitute a risk of transmission to non-immune or immune-compromised patients.…”

“…Measles is the most transmissible human disease known and medical settings constitute a highly significant site of measles transmission [1][2][3][4]. Health care workers (HCW) are at substantially higher risk than the general population for becoming infected with measles.…”

Immunität gegen Masern beim medizinischen Personal des Universitätsklinikums Frankfurt, 2003–2013

“…Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens spielen eine kritische Rolle bei der Übertragung von Masern [9,13,22,23].…”

“…Das berufliche Infektionsrisiko von medizinischem Personal wird 2-bis 19-mal so hoch wie das Infektionsrisiko der Normalbevölkerung geschätzt [1,10,11]. Aus diesem Grund ist der Masernschutz für medizinisches Personal unabdingbar [1,12,13].…”

The re-emergency and persistence of vaccine preventable diseases

“…Although a large number of studies have demonstrated that there is no correlation between MMR vaccine and autism, anti-vaccine movements are still active and some parents are refusing to vaccinate their children (Stratton et al 2001, Maltezou andWicker 2013).…”