A measles outbreak at university medical settings involving health care providers.
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (9) , 1222-1224
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.9.1222
Abstract
In 1985, a measles outbreak involved 14 students and non-student contacts in Michigan. Eight transmissions occurred at university medical facilities; five of these were likely airborne transmissions. Medical students and a medical resident were involved in the outbreak's propagation. Health care providers need to be immune to measles. Measles should be suspected in young adults with compatible illnesses; persons suspected to have measles should be placed in stringent respiratory isolation to preclude airborne transmission.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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