MOST CONSULTED ITEMS FROM MEASLES UPDATES

Friday, 20th of March 2015

MOST CONSULTED ITEMS FROM MEASLES UPDATES

As our sister webpage, www.measlesupdates.org, pushes towards 200,000 hits, I am reproducing below those updates which have garnered more than 1000 pageviews each.

One item which I find missing here: no careful analysis of the impact on measles epidemiology of urbanization. I think it deserves more analysis than it has gotten to date. Bartlett and other modelers have proposed a population threshold below which the perennial transmission of measles cannot be sustained. The number of cities which rise above Bartletts threshold rises every year.

Moreover, the availability of cheap and plentiful transport means that we can no longer look at cities, but at metropolitan areas, as single epidemiological units. When we mobilized in Kampala, we needed also to mobilize in Wakiso, which, from a disease transmission standpoint, forms part of the Ugandan capital.

None of this makes it easier to interrupt measles transmission. It simply makes it all the more imperative to finish the job of measles eradication as early as possible

Good reading.

Article Title	Number of Hits
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF MEASLES GENOTYPES AND MEASLES MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1603	5192
ONE BILLION MEASLES SHOTS http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=696	2718
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING, MEASLES AND RUBELLA INITIATIVE, WASHINGTON, DC http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1493	1959
THE EFFECTS OF MEASLES ON DISEASE MARKERS IN HIV+ CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS LIVING IN BOTSWANA http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1323	1844
THREE ITEMS ON NOSOCOMIAL MEASLES TRANSMISSION http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1170	1839
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TWO LARGE MEASLES VIRUS OUTBREAKS IN CATALONIA: WHAT A DIFFERENCE THE MONTH OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE FIRST DOSE OF VACCINE MAKES http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1916	1740
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MEASLES VIRUSES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1997–2001 http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=2003	1716
MEASLES SUPPLEMENTARY IMMUNIZATION ACTIVITIES AND GAVI FUNDS AS CATALYSTS FOR IMPROVING INJECTION SAFETY IN AFRICA http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1641	1597
MEASLES IN THE US: GOING, GOING, NOT GONE http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=540	1535
PROGRESS IN GLOBAL CONTROL AND REGIONAL ELIMINATION OF MEASLES, 2000–2011 http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1610	1443

GLOBAL ERADICATION OF MEASLES: AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1849

MEASLES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1129

1400

ASSESSMENT OF THE 2010 GLOBAL MEASLES MORTALITY REDUCTION GOAL: RESULTS FROM A MODEL OF SURVEILLANCE DATA

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1210

1271

COMPARING MEASLES WITH PREVIOUS ERADICATION PROGRAMS: ENABLING AND CONSTRAINING FACTORS

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=2020

1245

POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF MEASLES VIRUS TRANSMISSION, UGANDA, 2006–2009

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1608

1219.

MEASLES MORTALITY REDUCTION CONTRIBUTES SUBSTANTIALLY TO REDUCTION OF ALL CAUSE MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS OF AGE, 1990–2008

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1669

1217

SINGLE ENDEMIC GENOTYPE OF MEASLES VIRUS CONTINUOUSLY CIRCULATING IN CHINA FOR AT LEAST 16 YEARS.

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1607

1210

THE ETHICS OF OPTING OUT OF VACCINATION

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1714

1210

PROGRESS TOWARD CONTROL OF RUBELLA AND PREVENTION OF CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME—WORLDWIDE, 2009

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1658.

1199

RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR GLOBAL MEASLES AND RUBELLA CONTROL AND ERADICATION

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1208

1196..

INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW CHILDHOOD IMMUNISATION COVERAGE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1614

1157

WHATS NEW THIS SATURDAY: MODELING CRS RISK FOR SOUTH AFRICA

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1588

1151

USE OF A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TO MAP CASES OF MEASLES IN REAL-TIME DURING AN OUTBREAK IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, 2011

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1622

1135

DOUBLE OUTBREAK OF MEASLES IN THE TALAJA BLOCK OF BHAVNAGAR DISTRICT, GUJARAT, INDIA 2011: A NEED FOR IMPROVING THE VACCINE COVERAGE AND THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1644

1131

BIOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY OF MEASLES ERADICATION

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1632

1115

PROCEEDINGS OF THE GLOBAL TECHNICAL CONSULTATION TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF MEASLES ERADICATION, 28–30 JULY 2010.

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1633

1087

UGANDA CIVIL SOCIETY IMMUNIZATION PLATFORM.

http://www.measlesupdates.org/?content=com_articles&artid=1730

1065

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