Measles outbreak linked to European B3 outbreaks, Wales, United Kingdom, 2017

Currie, Jonny, Davies, Llion, McCarthy, Joanne, Perry, Malorie, Moore, Catherine, Cottrell, Simon, Bowley, Mererid, Williams, Chris, Shankar, Ananda Giri and Stiff, Rhianwen 2017. Measles outbreak linked to European B3 outbreaks, Wales, United Kingdom, 2017. Eurosurveillance 22 (42) 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.42.17-00673

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Additional Information:	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence
Publisher:	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ISSN:	1560-7917
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 October 2021
Date of Acceptance:	19 October 2017
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 20:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145034

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