J Korean Med Sci.  2017 Nov;32(11):1876-1878. 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876.

An Outbreak of Measles in a University in Korea, 2014

• Choe YJ
• Park YJ
• Kim JW
• Eom HE
• Park O
• Oh MD
• Lee JK

• KMID: 2390318
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.11.1876

Abstract

Measles has been declared eliminated from the Korea since 2006. In April 2014, a measles outbreak occurred at a University in Seoul. A total of 85 measles cases were identified. In order to estimate vaccine effectiveness of measles vaccine, we reviewed the vaccination records of the university students. The vaccine effectiveness of two doses of measles containing vaccine was 60.0% (95% CI, 38.2-74.1; P < 0.05). Transmission was interrupted after the introduction of outbreak-response immunization. The outbreak shows that pockets of under-immunity among college students may have facilitated the disease transmission despite the high 2-dose vaccination coverage in the community.

Keyword

Measles; MMR; Outbreak; College; University; Korea

MeSH Terms

Humans
Immunization
Korea*
Measles Vaccine
Measles*
Seoul
Vaccination
Measles Vaccine

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Outbreak of measles on a university campus in Seoul, Korea, 2014. The different colors of the bars represent the places where the patients were exposed to measles virus.

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