Measles elimination: a mass immunization campaign in Romania

Despite high-single dose measles immunization coverage since the 1980s and high 2-dose coverage since 1995, Romania experienced a measles epidemic between Nov 1996 and Jun 1998. A nationwide campaign was conducted to immunize school-age children, most of whom were not immunized under the second-dose...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2001-07, Vol.91 (7), p.1042-1045
Main Authors: ION-NEDELCU, Nicolae, CRACIUN, Dorina, STREBEL, Peter, PITIGOI, Daniela, POPA, Mircea, HENNESSEY, Karen, ROURE, Colette, ASTON, Robert, ZIMMERMANN, Guy, PELLY, Michael, GAY, Nigel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Campaigns
Censuses
Child
Children
Children & youth
Collaboration
Congenital diseases
Disease control
Disease prevention
Epidemics
Estimates
Female
Girls
Health Planning Technical Assistance
Health Priorities
Health surveillance
Humans
Immunization
Immunization Programs - organization & administration
Immunization Schedule
Male
Measles
Measles - epidemiology
Measles - prevention & control
Measles - transmission
Measles Vaccine - adverse effects
Measles Vaccine - supply & distribution
Medical sciences
Needlestick injuries
Population Surveillance
Prevention and actions
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk Factors
Romania
Romania - epidemiology
Rubella
School Health Services - organization & administration
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
Surveillance
Teenagers
Vaccines
World Health Organization
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Summary:Despite high-single dose measles immunization coverage since the 1980s and high 2-dose coverage since 1995, Romania experienced a measles epidemic between Nov 1996 and Jun 1998. A nationwide campaign was conducted to immunize school-age children, most of whom were not immunized under the second-dose policy established in 1994.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1042