Epidemiological analysis of measles in Taizhou City in 2010

Objective To characterize the epidemiology of measles in Taizhou in 2010 and provide the evidence for the measles elimination strategies.Methods Descriptive epidemiological analysis was conducted on the data of measles cases in Taizhou City,which was collected from the China Information System for Diseases Control and Prevention.Results A total of 99 measles cases were confirmed in Taizhou City in 2010 which mainly occurred during April-June.The incidence among the children 12 months was high,accounting for 33.33% of the total cases,the cases at the age of 20-40 years also had a small incidence peak.The cases without vaccination history or unknown vaccination history accounted for 76.76% and the cases among the floating population accounted for 23.23%.26.26% measles cases accounted for hospital infection.Conclusions The infants aged 12 months are the priority population for the measles control.It is urgent to enhance the routine primary vaccination among younger age children and vaccination reseeding among proper age children opportunely,and to increase measles vaccine cover age among the children in immigrant population and improve the measles surveillance in order to prevent and control measles outbreak.