Highlights•Vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) have been re-emerging despite sustained
high vaccine coverage.•Vaccine-induced immunity may wane more rapidly compared to …

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to man. Despite the existence of a
safe and effective live attenuated vaccine, measles can appear in vaccinated individuals …

In 2009, measles outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Virginia resulted in the exposure and
apparent infection of 2 physicians, both of whom had a documented history of vaccination …

Waning immunity or secondary vaccine failure (SVF) has been anticipated by some as a
challenge to global measles elimination efforts. Although such cases are infrequent …

An increasing body of evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of individuals who
respond to measles vaccine display an antibody boost accompanied by mild or no …

An age-structured mathematical model of measles transmission in a vaccinated population
is used to simulate the shift from a population whose immunity is derived from natural …

Recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), encoding the measles virus (MV) fusion
(F) and hemagglutinin (H)(MVA-FH) glycoproteins, was evaluated in an MV vaccination …

A 1999-2000 measles epidemic in the Netherlands started with an outbreak in an orthodox
reformed elementary school with 7% vaccine coverage. The overall attack rate was 37 …

Evidence for airborne infectious disease transmission in public ground transport – a
literature review Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Review articles Evidence for airborne …

Abstract Approximately 20,000–30,000 measles patients were reported in a surveillance of
infectious diseases because of low vaccine coverage of 80% in Japan. Among them, some …