1. Coordinated public health actions following the identification of a measles case arriving on an international flight, Spain: December 2022–January 2023
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Noemí López-Perea, Silvia Rivera Ariza, María Magdalena Salom Castell, Conchita Izquierdo Gómez, Montserrat Guillaumes, Aurora Fernández-García, Juan E. Echevarría, María Mar Mosquera, Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez, Ana Delia Cebollada Gracia, Virtudes Gallardo García, María Victoria García Rivera, Bernardo Guzmán Herrador, Isabel Huertas-Zarco, María del Carmen Pacheco Martínez, Inmaculada Rodero Garduño, Oscar Paz Montero, Berta Suárez Rodríguez, and Josefa Masa-Calles
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Measles ,Contact tracing ,Flight transmission ,Measles elimination ,Spain ,Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine ,RC955-962 ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Contact tracing of individual exposed to any infectious measles case deserves special attention when in the country the disease is mostly imported. We present the coordinated public health actions triggered after reporting a suspected measles case in an aircraft. Spanish public health authorities and airlines responded promptly to allow a rapid contact tracing. Even one secondary measles case was reported no further transmission was identified, revealing that giving PEP and appropriate information help to avoid transmission and to maintain measles elimination in Spain.
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- 2024
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