Never waste a measles outbreak
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2024.48.62Keywords:
measles outbreak, measles surveillance, measles controlAbstract
Measles outbreaks can be extremely disruptive, may undermine confidence in the immunisation programme, have severe individual impacts on the health of those infected, result in considerable personal costs to families affected, and may spread to other countries if transmission is not rapidly interrupted. Effective public health outbreak responses are resource intensive. Thus, given the enormous cost of measles outbreaks it is essential that every outbreak is considered an opportunity to glean valuable learnings.
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