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. 2015 Nov;21(11):2067-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid2111.150410.

Economic Costs of Measles Outbreak in the Netherlands, 2013-2014

Anita W M Suijkerbuijk, Tom Woudenberg, Susan J M Hahné, Laura Nic Lochlainn, Hester E de Melker, Wilhelmina L M Ruijs, Anna K Lugnér

Economic Costs of Measles Outbreak in the Netherlands, 2013-2014

Anita W M Suijkerbuijk et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Nov.

Erratum in

  • Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jan;22(1):161
  • Correction: Vol. 21, No. 11.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jan;22(1):161. doi: 10.3201/eid2201.C22201. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016. PMID: 31265525 Free PMC article.

Abstract

In 2013 and 2014, the Netherlands experienced a measles outbreak in orthodox Protestant communities with low measles-mumps-rubella vaccination coverage. Assessing total outbreak costs is needed for public health outbreak preparedness and control. Total costs of this outbreak were an estimated $4.7 million.

Keywords: cost analysis; costs; disease outbreak; encephalitis; health care economics; measles; measles-mumps-rubella vaccine; primary prevention; religion and medicine; the Netherlands; vaccination; viruses.

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