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Taiwan: 2015 Measles--Duty Free shop workers contract measles

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Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/03/20/2003613987 [h=5]Fri, Mar 20, 2015 - Page 3 [/h] [h=1]CDC put record number on watch list for rubella[/h] [h=3]AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT:A flight attendant may have come into contact with 686 Taiwanese while infectious, but the CDC said it had only contacted 72 people so far[/h] By Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter



The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday placed a record-high of more than 1,500 people on a monitoring list in response to a recent confirmed case of German measles involving a China Airlines flight attendant.
?The female flight attendant lives in northern Taiwan and started experiencing fever, a runny nose, coughing and rashes on Saturday. On Wednesday it was confirmed she had German measles and she remains in quarantine,? CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said.
Chuang said the stewardess could have contracted rubella between Feb. 21 and Feb. 28, either in Vietnam, Indonesia or Hong Kong, categorizing her case as an imported one...
 
Source: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201504100021.aspx

CDC urges vigilance after new German measles case
2015/04/10 17:54:28

Taipei, April 10 (CNA) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) urged people in Taiwan on Friday to heighten their vigilance for German measles after the country's third German measles infection of the year was confirmed a day earlier.

A 50-year-old male in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan was confirmed to be infected with the disease on April 9, but he has already recovered, the agency said...
 
Source: http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201505190030.aspx

Duty-free shop staff may have contracted measles from tourists: CDC
2015/05/19 22:42:40

Taipei, May 19 (CNA) The Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday it suspects that four employees at a duty-free shop in Taipei who were diagnosed with measles last week might have contracted the disease from tourists...
 
Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/health/infectious-diseases/2015/05/27/436999/Measles-diagnoses.htm


Measles diagnoses increase on back of duty-free outbreak
By Sun Hsin-hsuan, The China Post
May 27, 2015, 12:07 am TWN

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Three more cases of measles were confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 疾管署), yesterday, adding to the total number of diagnoses in a case of group infections starting from the Ever Rich Duty Free Shop in Neihu, according to CDC officials...
 
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