Implications of a 2005 Measles Outbreak in Indiana for Sustained Elimination of Measles in the United States
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- 3 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 355 (5) , 447-455
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa060775
Abstract
Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 but remains endemic worldwide. In 2005, a 17-year-old unvaccinated girl who was incubating measles returned from Romania, creating the largest documented outbreak of measles in the United States since 1996.Keywords
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