Challenges in managing a school-based measles outbreak in Melbourne, Australia, 2014.
CONCLUSIONS: Inadequately vaccinated students constitute a vulnerable population and schools are a potential site for measles outbreaks. Inadequate enforcement of school-based immunisation records impact the management and control of school-based measles outbreaks. Implications for Public Health: There is a need to educate clinicians on measles diagnosis and notification, and schools on the requirement to maintain up-to-date vaccination records. School entry is an opportunity to review student vaccination history and offer immunisations.
PMID: 27960246 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gibney KB, Brahmi A, O'Hara M, Morey R, Franklin L Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research
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