Eurosurveillance - Volume 20, Issue 3, 22 January 2015

In Slovenia, where measles virus had not been circulating for many years, an outbreak of measles among visitors of an international dog show occurred in November 2014. We identified 23 measles cases plus 21 presumable secondary and tertiary cases. Thirty-nine cases were adults, 27 to 56 years-old, 12 of them vaccinated with two doses. Five were unvaccinated children. Thanks to high vaccination coverage (95.3% in birth cohort 2011) wider transmission is not expected in Slovenia.

In November 2014, French public health authorities renewed the recommendation to target for vaccination against invasive meningococcal disease men who have sex with men (MSM) and all individuals ≥25 years attending social venues associated with the gay community. This policy was extended beyond the Paris region as a reaction to the continuing spread of serogroup C isolates belonging to a new lineage within clonal complex cc11 since the recommendation was first issued in July 2013.

We describe two Ebola virus (EBOV) RT-PCR discordant mother-child pairs. In the first, blood from the breastfeeding mother, recovering from EBOV infection, tested negative twice but her urine tested positive. Her child became infected by EBOV and died. In the second, the breastfed child remained EBOV-negative, although the mother's blood tested positive. We highlight possible benefits of EBOV RT-PCR testing in urine and breast milk and the need for hygiene counselling when those fluids are EBOV-positive. .