Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 142, Issue 4, Pages 789-796Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813001398
Keywords
Community outbreak; infectious disease control; measles; MMR vaccination; vaccines
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Between April and July 2011 there was an outbreak of measles virus, genotype D4, in Berlin, Germany.We identified 73 case-patients from the community and among students of an anthroposophic school, who participated in a 4-day school trip, as well as their family and friends.Overall, 27% were aged >= 20 years, 57% were female and 15% were hospitalized.Of 39 community case-patients, 38% were aged >= 20 years, 67% were female and 63% required hospitalization.Unvaccinated students returning from the school trip were excluded from school, limiting transmission.Within the group of 55 school-trip participants, including 20 measles case-patients, a measles vaccine effectiveness of 97.1% (95% confidence interval 83.4-100) for two doses was estimated using exact Poisson regression.Our findings support school exclusions and the recommendation of one-dose catch-up vaccination for everyone born after 1970 with incomplete or unknown vaccination status, in addition to the two-dose routine childhood immunization recommendation.
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