A prolonged, nationwide measles outbreak despite very high vaccination coverage in Israel, 2018-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel; Braun School of Public Health, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: emilia.anis@moh.gov.il.
• ² Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
• ³ Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel; Central Virology Laboratory, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
• ⁴ Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel; Braun School of Public Health, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁵ Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel.
• ⁶ Ministry of Health, District Health Office, Haifa, Israel; School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Israel.
• ⁷ School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Israel.
• ⁸ Division of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu Street, Jerusalem 9101002, Israel; Central Virology Laboratory, Tel Hashomer, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• ⁹ Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.