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Euro Surveill. Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 39, 29 September 2011
Editorials
Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?
P L Lopalco (
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Citation style for this article: Lopalco PL, Sprenger M. Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(39):pii=19979. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19979
Date of submission: 27 September 2011 <HR>
Eliminating measles and rubella is a goal that all European countries are committed to meet by 2015 [1]. However, the latest epidemiological trend in the European Union (EU) is unfortunately not reassuring in this respect. In 2011 alone, up to August, more than 28,000 cases were reported already. About one third of them required hospitalisation and in the first six months of the year, measles was responsible for eight deaths and 22 cases of acute encephalitis [2].
Sub-optimal immunisation levels prevented meeting the elimination goal in the World Health Organization European Region in 2010 and are still a cause for concern. Notwithstanding that measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination is accepted by the vast majority of European parents, there is still a relevant proportion of children that miss the opportunity of being protected with MMR. Even if this proportion is on average lower than 10% of the target population, it hinders reaching the elimination goal [3]. There are many reasons for sub-optimal vaccination uptake, but one of the main obstacles is the false perception of parents that believe MMR vaccination to be more dangerous than the disease itself.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 39, 29 September 2011
Editorials
Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?
P L Lopalco (
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Lopalco PL, Sprenger M. Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(39):pii=19979. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19979
Date of submission: 27 September 2011 <HR>
Eliminating measles and rubella is a goal that all European countries are committed to meet by 2015 [1]. However, the latest epidemiological trend in the European Union (EU) is unfortunately not reassuring in this respect. In 2011 alone, up to August, more than 28,000 cases were reported already. About one third of them required hospitalisation and in the first six months of the year, measles was responsible for eight deaths and 22 cases of acute encephalitis [2].
Sub-optimal immunisation levels prevented meeting the elimination goal in the World Health Organization European Region in 2010 and are still a cause for concern. Notwithstanding that measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination is accepted by the vast majority of European parents, there is still a relevant proportion of children that miss the opportunity of being protected with MMR. Even if this proportion is on average lower than 10% of the target population, it hinders reaching the elimination goal [3]. There are many reasons for sub-optimal vaccination uptake, but one of the main obstacles is the false perception of parents that believe MMR vaccination to be more dangerous than the disease itself.
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