ArticleEpidemiology and infection2014
Measles outbreak spreading from the community to an anthroposophic school, Berlin, 2011.
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- The quality of measles outbreak investigation report, how can it bridge the gap and help to fulfill the goal of measles elimination?BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding and explaining the link between anthroposophy and vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Epidemiology and economic burden of measles, mumps, pertussis, and varicella in Germany: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2016Pooled it
- A susceptible cluster in a religious camp allowed 2018-2019 measles outbreak in Japan: resurgence of a formerly eliminated virus.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Measles in Canada: modelling outbreaks with variable vaccine coverage and interventions.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Evolving measles status and immunization policy development in six European countries.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Review
- Ten years of weekly epidemiological teleconference (EpiLag) - an effective and time-efficient tool for infectious disease event information, Germany, 2009-2018.Epidemiology and infection · 2021Article
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Abstract
Between April and July 2011 there was an outbreak of measles virus, genotype D4, in Berlin, Germany. We identified 73 case-patients from the community and among students of an anthroposophic school, who participated in a 4-day school trip, as well as their family and friends. Overall, 27% were aged ≥ 20 years, 57% were female and 15% were hospitalized. Of 39 community case-patients, 38% were aged ≥ 20 years, 67% were female and 63% required hospitalization. Unvaccinated students returning from the school trip were excluded from school, limiting transmission. Within the group of 55 school-trip participants, including 20 measles case-patients, a measles vaccine effectiveness of 97.1% (95% confidence interval 83.4-100) for two doses was estimated using exact Poisson regression. Our findings support school exclusions and the recommendation of one-dose catch-up vaccination for everyone born after 1970 with incomplete or unknown vaccination status, in addition to the two-dose routine childhood immunization recommendation.
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