Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023

Despite being a vaccine-preventable disease for decades, pertussis control is still a public health challenge. A pertussis outbreak emerged in Jerusalem (n = 257 cases, January to June 2023). Most cases were young children (median age 1.5 years), and 100 were infants under 1 year. The hospitalisatio...

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Autores principales: Stein-Zamir, Chen, Shoob, Hanna, Abramson, Nitza, Brown, Emilie Hannah, Zimmermann, Yael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10600895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37737060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268823001577
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author Stein-Zamir, Chen
Shoob, Hanna
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Zimmermann, Yael
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description Despite being a vaccine-preventable disease for decades, pertussis control is still a public health challenge. A pertussis outbreak emerged in Jerusalem (n = 257 cases, January to June 2023). Most cases were young children (median age 1.5 years), and 100 were infants under 1 year. The hospitalisation rate of infants was 24%, which was considerably higher than that of cases aged 1 year and above (3.8%). There was one fatality in an unvaccinated, 10-week-old infant whose mother had not received pertussis vaccination during pregnancy. Most children were unvaccinated and resided in Jewish ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods in Jerusalem district. An intervention programme and vaccination campaign are ongoing.
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spelling pubmed-106008952023-10-27 Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023 Stein-Zamir, Chen Shoob, Hanna Abramson, Nitza Brown, Emilie Hannah Zimmermann, Yael Epidemiol Infect From the Field Despite being a vaccine-preventable disease for decades, pertussis control is still a public health challenge. A pertussis outbreak emerged in Jerusalem (n = 257 cases, January to June 2023). Most cases were young children (median age 1.5 years), and 100 were infants under 1 year. The hospitalisation rate of infants was 24%, which was considerably higher than that of cases aged 1 year and above (3.8%). There was one fatality in an unvaccinated, 10-week-old infant whose mother had not received pertussis vaccination during pregnancy. Most children were unvaccinated and resided in Jewish ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods in Jerusalem district. An intervention programme and vaccination campaign are ongoing. Cambridge University Press 2023-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10600895/ /pubmed/37737060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268823001577 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Stein-Zamir, Chen
Shoob, Hanna
Abramson, Nitza
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Zimmermann, Yael
Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title_full Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title_fullStr Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title_full_unstemmed Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title_short Pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox Jewish groups, Jerusalem, Israel 2023
title_sort pertussis outbreak mainly in unvaccinated young children in ultra-orthodox jewish groups, jerusalem, israel 2023
topic From the Field
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10600895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37737060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268823001577
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