Guidance

Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measles outbreak

This document outlines practical clinical care interventions and infection prevention and control measures required to reduce the high levels of morbidity and mortality that can occur during measles outbreaks. This guidance is targeted for use by front-line clinicians and health care workers, in any health setting, who care for patients with clinically suspected or confirmed measles. This document will also aid policy-makers and hospital managers to ensure policies are in place to safely provide necessary life-saving interventions to measles patients.

Languages

  • English

Publication year

2020

Publisher

WHO

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Programme management

Diseases

  • Measles

Organisations

  • World Health Organisation (WHO)

Tags

  • Outbreak

Topic references

EPI-CORE-MEASLES

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
A Guide to Introducing a 2nd Dose of Measles Vaccine into Routine Immunization SchedulesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2013GuidanceEnglish
Criteria to determine if a vaccine is routine or supplementalUNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO)2011GuidanceEnglish
Framework for verifying elimination of measles and rubellaWorld Health Organization (WHO)2013Journal articleFrench
Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan 2012-2020World Health Organization (WHO)2012GuidanceEnglish
Guide for clinical case management and infection prevention and control during a measles outbreakWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish
Guidelines on the Use of Serosurveys in support of Measles and Rubella EliminationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2019GuidanceEnglish
Introducing Rubella Vaccine into National Immunization Programmes. A step by step guideWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015GuidanceEnglish, French
Manual for the Laboratory-based Surveillance of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella SyndromeWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Measles Programmatic Risk Assessment ToolWorld Health Organization (WHO)RepositoryEnglish
Planning and implementing high-quality supplementary immunization activities for injectable vaccines using an example of measles and rubella vaccinesAlya Dabbagh2016GuidanceEnglish
SIA readiness assessment tool and dashboardWorld Health Organization (WHO)2016RepositoryEnglish, French

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