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Measles elimination successful and its relevant challenges in iran.

المعرف
DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_334_20
المصدر
International Journal of Preventive Medicine. v. 13, 1, p. 52
المساهمون
الدولة
India
الناشر
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
ميلادي
2022-01-01
اللغة
الأنجليزية
الموضوع
الملخص الإنجليزي
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.
ISSN
2008-7802
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Al-Awaidy, Salah T.
HBKU Press.
2020-01-01