WHO EpiBrief: a report on the epidemiology of selected vaccine-preventable diseases in the European Region: No. 2/2014

Abstract

This report provides an overview of selected epidemiological characteristics of measles and rubella in the WHO European Region. It is primarily based on epidemiological data submitted to the centralized information system for infectious diseases. The analyses of these diseases are performed on cases with disease onset dates during the first quarter of 2014. Where these dates were unavailable, cases with the date of notification reported during this period were included. This issue reports specifically on measles in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, the Russian Federation, Spain and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and on rubella in the Russian Federation.