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. 2024 Nov-Dec:62:102768.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2024.102768. Epub 2024 Oct 5.

Coordinated public health actions following the identification of a measles case arriving on an international flight, Spain: December 2022-January 2023

Noemí López-Perea  1 , Silvia Rivera Ariza  2 , María Magdalena Salom Castell  3 , Conchita Izquierdo Gómez  4 , Montserrat Guillaumes  5 , Aurora Fernández-García  6 , Juan E Echevarría  6 , María Mar Mosquera  7 , Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez  8 , Ana Delia Cebollada Gracia  9 , Virtudes Gallardo García  10 , María Victoria García Rivera  11 , Bernardo Guzmán Herrador  2 , Isabel Huertas-Zarco  12 , María Del Carmen Pacheco Martínez  13 , Inmaculada Rodero Garduño  14 , Oscar Paz Montero  15 , Berta Suárez Rodríguez  2 , Josefa Masa-Calles  16
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Coordinated public health actions following the identification of a measles case arriving on an international flight, Spain: December 2022-January 2023

Noemí López-Perea et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2024 Nov-Dec.
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Abstract

Contact tracing of individual exposed to any infectious measles case deserves special attention when in the country the disease is mostly imported. We present the coordinated public health actions triggered after reporting a suspected measles case in an aircraft. Spanish public health authorities and airlines responded promptly to allow a rapid contact tracing. Even one secondary measles case was reported no further transmission was identified, revealing that giving PEP and appropriate information help to avoid transmission and to maintain measles elimination in Spain.

Keywords: Contact tracing; Flight transmission; Measles; Measles elimination; Spain.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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