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Measles outbreak linked to European B3 outbreaks, Wales, United Kingdom, 2017.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Oct 2017
Currie Jonny, Davies Llion, McCarthy Joanne, Perry Malorie, Moore Catherine, Cottrell Simon, Bowley Mererid, Williams Chris, Shankar Ananda Giri, Stiff Rhianwen
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The United Kingdom achieved interrupted endemic measles transmission for 36 months in 2016. Despite this, ongoing challenges from sporadic measles cases typically imported from abroad remain. We summarise a B3 measles genotype outbreak in south-east Wales occurring between May and September 2017, linked with other European outbreaks, and lessons learnt. Seventeen confirmed cases and one probable case occurred...
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