|
Age |
Title |
Summary |
Published |
Format* |
| 34-year-old |
New
England Journal of Medicine Case Report: A 34-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with
Confusion and Visual Loss |
Report
#90: Case presentation on subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare and severe
neurological complication of measles infection. It was originally published in
the May 14, 1998, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. |
2/27/07 |
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| 13-year-old |
Schoolboy,
13, Dies as Measles Makes a Comeback |
Report
#88: Measles had not claimed a life in Britain for 14 years, but this fact
changed in 2006 when, tragically, a teenager who had not been vaccinated died
from acute measles infection. |
2/27/07 |
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| 8-year-old |
Open
Letter to Parents from Eileen M. Ouellette, M.D., J.D., F.A.A.P., Former
President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (2005-2006) |
Report
#87: In this personal account, Dr. Ouellette vividly describes her own
experience with measles infection in 1937. |
2/14/07 |
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| infants,
children |
"The
Problem" by the Measles Initiative |
Report
#85: Measles is a leading vaccine-preventable killer of children in the
developing world. |
2/14/07 |
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| various |
Preventable measles
outbreak in Indiana results in 34 cases and three hospitalizations in summer
2005 |
Report
#80: It
requires the resources of health departments in three states to contain a
measles outbreak that develops when an unvaccinated teenager returns from
overseas.
|
10/28/05 |
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PDF |
| various |
CDC reports on
preventable measles among U.S. residents, 2001-2004 |
Report
#79: CDC data
indicate that in 2001-04, 56% of measles cases among U.S. residents were
preventable.
|
8/26/05 |
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| NA |
Society pays a high price for
nonmedical vaccination exemption |
Report
#66: A prodigious effort is
required to notify hundreds, perhaps thousands, of contacts of an unvaccinated
man who returns to Iowa from New Dehli while contagious with measles.
|
3/26/04 |
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|
11 infants,
median age
11 months;
2 adults,
age 31 and
50 years |
"2002 Alabama measles outbreak is
traced to an imported case" |
Report #64: Ten infants and two
adults contract measles from a 9-month-old infant who returned from the
Philippines with the disease. MMWR editors suggest physicians administer MMR
vaccine to children >6 months of age who will be traveling outside the United
States.
|
1/22/04 |
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| NA |
"Complacency the likely cause of
measles epidemic in the Seattle area" |
Report #51: Mark Kane, MD, director
of the Children's Vaccine Program at PATH, explains the reason for 11 cases of
measles in King County in 2001.
|
10/31/02 |
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PDF |
| NA |
"Measles shots are common sense:
personal reflections of an Alaska physician" |
Report #29: A recently retired
pediatrician shares some of his personal and professional experiences with
measles.
|
4/26/00 |
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| NA |
"Measles outbreak associated with an
unvaccinated population" |
Report #11: Measles sweeps through
a religious community where 70% of the children and young adults have not been
vaccinated.
|
1/12/99 |
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