1887
  1. Home
  2. Eurosurveillance
  3. Volume 22, Issue 42, 19/Oct/2017
  4. Article
Rapid communication Open Access
Like 1
Download

Abstract

The United Kingdom achieved interrupted endemic measles transmission for 36 months in 2016. Despite this, ongoing challenges from sporadic measles cases typically imported from abroad remain. We summarise a B3 measles genotype outbreak in south-east Wales occurring between May and September 2017, linked with other European outbreaks, and lessons learnt. Seventeen confirmed cases and one probable case occurred principally in education and healthcare-settings. Six confirmed cases attended healthcare settings when infectious, without being isolated.

© Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673
2017-10-19
2024-12-29
/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673
Loading
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/eurosurveillance/22/42/eurosurv-22-42-3.html?itemId=/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Christiansen TB, Lauritsen JM, editors. EpiData - Comprehensive Data Management and Basic Statistical Analysis System. Odense: EpiData Association. [Accessed 3 Oct 2017]. Available from: http://www.epidata.dk
  2. Shannon P, Markiel A, Ozier O, Baliga NS, Wang JT, Ramage D, et al. Cytoscape: a software environment for integrated models of biomolecular interaction networks. Genome Res. 2003;13(11):2498-504.  https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.1239303  PMID: 14597658 
  3. Moore C, Cottrell S, Hoffmann J, Carr M, Evans H, Dunford L, et al. Self-collected buccal swabs and rapid, real-time PCR during a large measles outbreak in Wales: Evidence for the protective effect of prior MMR immunisation. J Clin Virol. 2015;67:1-7.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2015.03.012  PMID: 25959148 
  4. Office for National Statistics (ONS). Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: Mid-2016. Newport: ONS, 2017. Available from: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland
  5. Kurchatova A, Krumova S, Vladimirova N, Nikolaeva-Glomb L, Stoyanova A, Kantardjiev T, et al. Preliminary findings indicate nosocomial transmission and Roma population as most affected group in ongoing measles B3 genotype outbreak in Bulgaria, March to August 2017. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(36):1.  https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.36.30611  PMID: 28920573 
  6. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Epidemiological update: Measles – monitoring European outbreaks. Stockholm: ECDC; 8 Sep 2017. Available from: https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/epidemiological-update-measles-monitoring-european-outbreaks-8-september-2017
  7. Public Health England (PHE). Guidelines on Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for measles. August 2017. London: PHE. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-post-exposure-prophylaxis
  8. Lamden KH, Gemmell I. General practice factors and MMR vaccine uptake: structure, process and demography. J Public Health (Oxf). 2008;30(3):251-7.  https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdn036  PMID: 18487248 
  9. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe). Sixth Meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC). Copenhagen: WHO, 2017. Available from: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/348013/6th-RVC-final-for-web-posting.pdf?ua=1
  10. Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet. 1998;351(9103):637-41. [Retracted paper]. . https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0  PMID: 9500320 
  11. Public Health Wales Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme. Vaccine uptake in children in Wales; COVER Annual report 2017. Cardiff: Public Health Wales; May 2017. Available from: http://www2.nphs.wales.nhs.uk:8080/CommunitySurveillanceDocs.nsf/($All)/CC3BE5649EB0B2608025813000471C6B/$File/COVER20162017_v1.pdf
  12. Public Health Wales. National Immunisation uptake data. Cardiff: Public Health Wales. [Accessed 6 Sep 2017]. Available from: https://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=457&pid=54144
  13. Walkinshaw E. Mandatory vaccinations: The international landscape. CMAJ. 2011;183(16):E1167-8.  https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3993  PMID: 21989473 
  14. Hilton S. Parental perceptions of childhood immunisation in the context of the MMR controversy. 2016. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1044.
  15. Yaqub O, Castle-Clarke S, Sevdalis N, Chataway J. Attitudes to vaccination: a critical review. Soc Sci Med. 2014;112:1-11.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.04.018  PMID: 24788111 
  16. Casiday R, Cresswell T, Wilson D, Panter-Brick C. A survey of UK parental attitudes to the MMR vaccine and trust in medical authority. Vaccine. 2006;24(2):177-84.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.07.063  PMID: 16157422 
  17. George F, Valente J, Augusto GF, Silva AJ, Pereira N, Fernandes T, et al. Measles outbreak after 12 years without endemic transmission, Portugal, February to May 2017. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(23):30548.  https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.23.30548  PMID: 28661392 
  18. Department of Health (DH). The Green Book. Chapter 21: Measles. London: DH, 2013. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-the-green-book-chapter-21
Measles outbreak linked to European B3 outbreaks, Wales, United Kingdom, 2017
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Jonny+Currie&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Currie Jonny</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Llion+Davies&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Davies Llion</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Joanne+McCarthy&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">McCarthy Joanne</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Malorie+Perry&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Perry Malorie</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Catherine+Moore&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Moore Catherine</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Simon+Cottrell&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Cottrell Simon</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Mererid+Bowley&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Bowley Mererid</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Chris+Williams&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Williams Chris</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Ananda+Giri+Shankar&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Shankar Ananda Giri</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Rhianwen+Stiff&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Stiff Rhianwen</a></span>. Measles outbreak linked to European B3 outbreaks, Wales, United Kingdom, 2017. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2017;22(42):pii=17-00673. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 05 Oct 2017;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 19 Oct 2017 </span> </p>
/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673
/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673
Loading

Data & Media loading...

Submit comment
Close
Comment moderation successfully completed
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error