David Springer
@dnspringer.bsky.social
Virologist @Medical University of Vienna
In 2024, Austria experienced its largest measles outbreak in at least 24 years (542 cases - all over Austria, different age groups, several independent outbreaks!). So we wondered: is there an immunity gap in our population?
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Seroprevalence against measles, Austria, stratified by birth years 1922 to 2024
Background
Vaccination programmes initiated in the early 1970s reduced the incidence of measles in Austria, which resulted in the interruption of endemic measles virus (MeV) circulation and the achiev...
www.eurosurveillance.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In 2024, Austria experienced its largest measles outbreak in at least 24 years (542 cases - all over Austria, different age groups, several independent outbreaks!). So we wondered: is there an immunity gap in our population?
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Reposted by David Springer
