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

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.

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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
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2024-10-05
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2024.102768
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Zoonotic diseases and public health
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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

Aurora Fernández-García, Montserrat Guillaumes, María Victoria García Rivera, Josefa Masa‐Calles, Inmaculada Rodero Garduño, Juan E. Echevarrı́a, Noemí López-Perea, María del Carmen Pacheco Martínez, Bernardo Guzmán-Herrador, Isabel Huertas-Zarco, Virtudes Gallardo García, Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez, María Mar Mosquera, Oscar Paz Montero, Silvia Rivera Ariza, Conchita Izquierdo Gómez, Ana Delia Cebollada Gracia, Berta Suárez Rodríguez, María Magdalena Salom Castell
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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.

Travel Medicine and Infectious DiseaseVol. 62
Generalitat de Catalunya (ES), Xunta de Galicia (ES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES), Servei de Salut de les Illes Balears (ES), Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública (ES), Ministry of Health (ES), Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León (ES), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (ES), Agència de Salut Pública de Catalunya (ES), Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha (ES), Madrid Health Service (ES), Junta de Castilla y León (ES), Public Health Agency (GB), Gobierno de Aragón (ES), Comunidad de Madrid (ES), Govern de les Illes Balears (ES), Consejería de Salud y Consumo (ES), Universitat de Barcelona (ES), Junta de Andalucía (ES)
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