Measles Elimination Successful and Its Relevant Challenges in Iran

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Measles is an infectious childhood disease with some death annually. The expansion of the coverage of vaccination plan has significantly reduced the mortality rate of this disease. Given that the endemic measles virus is not transmitted in the country and based on Regional Verification Commission (RVC) for Measles and Rubella Elimination has declared that measles and rubella have been eliminated in three countries of Eastern Mediterranean Region including Islamic Republic of Iran, Bahrain, and Oman. Therefore, to continue and preventing from reemerging of measles in Iran, it is essential to maintaining the immunization programs, diagnose, and investigate all suspicious cases and outbreaks. This article investigates the challenges facing to measles after elimination declaration in Iran. However, the elimination of these diseases to be sustainable needs a vigorous case identification protocol and contact follow up.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

International journal of preventive medicine - 13(2022) vom: 17., Seite 52

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hosseinalipour, Seyed Abbas [VerfasserIn]
Mohammadbeigi, Abolfazl [VerfasserIn]
Mohebi, Siamak [VerfasserIn]
Saghafipour, Abedin [VerfasserIn]
Arabshahi, Amin [VerfasserIn]
Mahdianpour, Farzaneh [VerfasserIn]

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Elimination
Journal Article
Measles
Outbreak
Syndromic surveillance system
Vaccination

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_334_20

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NLM34228245X