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

  1. López-Perea, Noemí 123
  2. Rivera Ariza, Silvia 4
  3. Salom Castell, María Magdalena 5
  4. Izquierdo Gómez, Conchita 6
  5. Guillaumes, Montserrat 7
  6. Fernández-García, Aurora 28
  7. Echevarría, Juan E. 28
  8. Mosquera, María Mar 910
  9. Oliva Íñiguez, Lourdes 11
  10. Cebollada Gracia, Ana Delia 12
  11. Gallardo García, Virtudes 13
  12. García Rivera, María Victoria 14
  13. Guzmán Herrador, Bernardo 4
  14. Huertas-Zarco, Isabel 15
  15. Pacheco Martínez, María del Carmen 16
  16. Rodero Garduño, Inmaculada 17
  17. Paz Montero, Oscar 18
  18. Suárez Rodríguez, Berta 4
  19. Masa-Calles, Josefa 12
  1. 1 National Centre of Epidemiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  2. 2 Spanish Consortium for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  3. 3 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Autonomous University of Madrid/IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
  4. 4 Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
  5. 5 Servei d'Epidemiologia, Conselleria de Salut i Consum, Illes Baleares, Spain
  6. 6 Public Health Agency of Catalonia. Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain
  7. 7 Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Spain
  8. 8 National Centre for Microbiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  9. 9 Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
  10. 10 Microbiology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
  11. 11 Foreign Health Service, Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
  12. 12 Servicio de Vigilancia en Salud Pública. Gobierno de Aragón, Spain
  13. 13 Servicio de Vigilancia y Salud Laboral. Consejería de Salud y Consumo. Junta de Andalucía, Spain
  14. 14 Servicio de Epidemiología. Consejería de Sanidad, Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
  15. 15 Servei de Vigilància i Control Epidemiològic. Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública. Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
  16. 16 Servicio de Epidemiología. Consejería de Sanidad. Junta de Castilla y León, Spain
  17. 17 Área de Vigilancia y Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles, Subdirección General de Vigilancia en Salud Pública, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
  18. 18 Servizo de Alertas Epidemiolóxicas. Xefatura Territorial de Sanidade de Pontevedra. Galicia, Spain
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Journal:
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

ISSN: 1477-8939

Year of publication: 2024

Volume: 62

Pages: 102768

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.TMAID.2024.102768 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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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.

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