Further efforts needed to achieve measles elimination in Germany: results of an outbreak investigation

Further efforts needed to achieve measles elimination in Germany: results of an outbreak investigation

OBJECTIVE: To determine morbidity and costs related to a large measles outbreak in Germany and to identify ways to improve the country's national measles elimination strategy. METHODS: We investigated a large outbreak of measles in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) that occurred...

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Main Authors: Ole Wichmann, Anette Siedler, Daniel Sagebiel, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Sabine Santibanez, Annette Mankertz, Georg Vogt, Ulrich van Treeck, Gérard Krause
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2009-02-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000200012&lng=en&tlng=en

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