Israel: 2012 Measles cases/alerts

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Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...3#.T6pRSI5pehc

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5/9/2012, Iyar 17, 5772

Measles Outbreak Among Foreign Job-Seekers

Several cases of measles have been reported among foreign job-seekers and their children since January, the Health Ministry reported Wednesday. Seven foreign citizens living in Tel Aviv were diagnosed with measles in the past week, six of them babies who required hospital care...

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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=269365

Rash of measles hits TA migrants
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
LAST UPDATED: 05/10/2012 02:18

Thirteen cases of measles have been diagnosed since January among Tel Aviv-area migrant workers and their children. Seven of them were identified in the last week, including six babies and a 22-year-old man. All of the children were treated at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center...

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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national...srael-1.434340

After years of calm, measles cases spike in northern Israel
Israel's Health Ministry reports increase of cases after four year period of relative calm; spike partly attributed to families refusing to be vaccinated.
By Dan Even | Jun.04, 2012 | 2:37 PM

There has been a significant increase in cases of the measles in northern Israel, according to recent research carried out by Israel's Health Ministry.

The study by the ministry's epidemiology department found 96 cases of measles by the end of May 2012, compared to only four cases of the disease in the same period in 2011, 14 in 2010, and two in 2009.

Some 63 of the cases this year ? 65 percent - were reported in the north, while 20 percent were in Tel Aviv ? some 20 percent - eight cases in the center of the country, four in Haifa, one in Jerusalem, and one in southern Israel.

The reported increase comes after four years of calm...

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Concern in Tel - Aviv: Measles outbreak threat
Girl who visited the hospital clinic Dana in Tel - Aviv, many children caught measles viruses ? children infected and their parents were called to the hospital and received treatment for them
Jonah again, in the anxious 20:40 06/10/2012

Concern among health authorities in Tel - Aviv. young woman of 14 who has had measles came for treatment in the clinic, Dana in Tel Aviv, just two days later it turned out that the girl measles and by the fear she caught up with other children who also visited the clinic. among children infected, cancer patients. The hospital immediately took precautionary measures, he announced to the children who were in contact with her to the hospital.

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