ALLMedicine™ Measles Center

Jan 22nd, 2021 - During 2018-2019 Israel saw some 4300 measles cases in a country-wide epidemic. Increased measles incidence rates and considerable disease burden have been observed in under-vaccinated communities, predominantly Jewish ultraorthodox. The measles e...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - As global effort is made towards measles elimination, the use of innovative technology to enhance planning for the campaign has become critical. GIS technology has been applied to track polio vaccination activities in Nigeria with encouraging outc...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and participation in the routine infant vaccination programme in the Netherlands. The incidence of various VPDs initially decreased by 7...

Jan 21st, 2021 - In recent years new forms of syndromic surveillance that use data from the Internet have been proposed. These have been developed to assist the early prediction of epidemics in various cases and diseases. It has been found that these systems are a...

Jan 20th, 2021 - Vaccinating Children against Covid-19 - The Lessons of Measles.|2021|Klass P,Ratner AJ,|

Dec 17th, 2019 - From an outbreak of mysterious lung-injury deaths to America’s near loss of measles elimination status, the beginning of the end of the U.S. HIV epidemic to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CDC worked around the cl...

Oct 3rd, 2019 - What is already known about this topic? Measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000. High national coverage with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and rapid implementation of measles control measures prevent widespread measles transmiss...

Sep 30th, 2019 - Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is caused by human enteroviruses and coxsackieviruses. Outbreaks can occur in the spring to fall and are common in North America, and most cases occur in patients younger than 10 years. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is tr...

Aug 25th, 2019 - 2018 - 2019 Measles Outbreak in Rockland County: As of August 26, 2019, there are 312* confirmed reported cases of measles in Rockland County. *On Monday, August 26, 2019, 16 historical cases of measles were added to the current total. These case...

Jul 28th, 2019 - Measles is one of the most highly transmissible diseases, with 90% of unvaccinated persons infected after contact.1 In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared that measles was eliminated in the United States, but that e...

Jan 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The drugmaker said Monday that it will focus instead on studying two possible treatments for the virus that also have yet to be approved by regula...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - During 2018-2019 Israel saw some 4300 measles cases in a country-wide epidemic. Increased measles incidence rates and considerable disease burden have been observed in under-vaccinated communities, predominantly Jewish ultraorthodox. The measles e...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - As global effort is made towards measles elimination, the use of innovative technology to enhance planning for the campaign has become critical. GIS technology has been applied to track polio vaccination activities in Nigeria with encouraging outc...

Jan 22nd, 2021 - We aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) and participation in the routine infant vaccination programme in the Netherlands. The incidence of various VPDs initially decreased by 7...

Jan 21st, 2021 - In recent years new forms of syndromic surveillance that use data from the Internet have been proposed. These have been developed to assist the early prediction of epidemics in various cases and diseases. It has been found that these systems are a...

Jan 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The drugmaker said Monday that it will focus instead on studying two possible treatments for the virus that also have yet to be approved by regula...

Dec 27th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many children under age two did not receive the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or preventive care visits even after clinics reopened following pandemic-related closures in a multicenter primary care network. The mo...

Dec 14th, 2020 - After an initial drop at the time of introduction of social distancing measures in March 2020, hexavalent (DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB) and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination counts have almost reached pre-COVID-19 levels, according to the latest ...

Dec 10th, 2020 - These are the global coronavirus stories you need to know about this week. The UK's rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine began on Tuesday with 90-year-old Maggie Keenan first to get her jab at a hospital in Coventry. She said it was a "huge hono...

Dec 2nd, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Torey Watson is trained as a pharmacist but aims to do more than simply fill prescriptions. Weekly orders of non-flu vaccines and measles-containi...