The measles situation in Austria: a rapid risk assessment by an ECDC team and the outcome of an international meeting in Vienna, Austria

R Strauss; P Kreidl; M Muscat; D Coulombier; M Mulders; A Gijsens; C König; J Stirling; G El Belazi; R Muchl; P Feierabend; H Holzmann; I Mutz; H Hrabcik

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The measles situation in Austria: a rapid risk assessment by an ECDC team and the outcome of an international meeting in Vienna, Austria
R Strauss¹ , P Kreidl² , M Muscat³ , D Coulombier² , M Mulders⁴ , A Gijsens⁵ , C König⁶ , J Stirling⁷ , G El Belazi¹ , R Muchl¹ , P Feierabend¹ , H Holzmann⁸ , I Mutz⁹ , H Hrabcik¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth, Directorate Public Health ² European Centre for Disease Control, Preparedness and Response Unit ³ EUVAC.NET hub, Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark ⁴ World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO /EURO), Communicable Diseases Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark ⁵ European Commission, Directorate General Health and Consumers, Health Threats Unit, Brussels, Belgium ⁶ Regional Health Board, Salzburg, Austria ⁷ Regional Health Board, Vienna, Austria ⁸ National Measles Reference Centre, Clinical Institute for Virology, Medical University Vienna, Austria ⁹ Austrian National Immunisation Advisory Board

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Citation style for this article: Strauss R, Kreidl P, Muscat M, Coulombier D, Mulders M, Gijsens A, König C, Stirling J, El Belazi G, Muchl R, Feierabend P, Holzmann H, Mutz I, Hrabcik H. The measles situation in Austria: a rapid risk assessment by an ECDC team and the outcome of an international meeting in Vienna, Austria. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(17):pii=18852. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.17.18852-en Received: 24 Apr 2008

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For the last three years, Austria has been considered a low-moderate incidence country (< 1/100,000/year) for measles [1] and the last significant measles outbreak occurred in 2003 involving 64 cases [2].

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