Summer Music and Arts Festivals As Hot Spots for Measles Transmission: Experience from England and Wales, June to October 2016

Overview

Journal Euro Surveill

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Nov 25

PMID 27881230

Citations 8

Authors

Olivier le Polain de Waroux

Vanessa Saliba

Simon Cottrell

Nick Young

Malorie Perry

Antoaneta Bukasa

Mary Ramsay

Kevin Brown

Gayatri Amirthalingam

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Abstract

We report 52 cases of measles linked to music and arts festivals in England and Wales, between mid-June and mid-October 2016. Nearly half were aged 15 to 19 years. Several individuals who acquired measles at one festival subsequently attended another festival while infectious, resulting in multiple interlinked outbreaks. Transmission within festivals resulted in a geographical spread of cases nationally as well as internationally, which presents particular challenges for measles control.

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