Public Health Actions to Control Measles Among Afghan Evacuees During Operation Allies Welcome - United States, September-November 2021.

Autor: Masters NB, Mathis AD, Leung J, Raines K, Clemmons NS, Miele K, Balajee SA, Lanzieri TM, Marin M, Christensen DL, Clarke KR, Cruz MA, Gallagher K, Gearhart S, Gertz AM, Grady-Erickson O, Habrun CA, Kim G, Kinzer MH, Miko S, Oberste MS, Petras JK, Pieracci EG, Pray IW, Rosenblum HG, Ross JM, Rothney EE, Segaloff HE, Shepersky LV, Skrobarcek KA, Stadelman AM, Sumner KM, Waltenburg MA, Weinberg M, Worrell MC, Bessette NE, Peake LR, Vogt MP, Robinson M, Westergaard RP, Griesser RH, Icenogle JP, Crooke SN, Bankamp B, Stanley SE, Friedrichs PA, Fletcher LD, Zapata IA, Wolfe HO, Gandhi PH, Charles JY, Brown CM, Cetron MS, Pesik N, Knight NW, Alvarado-Ramy F, Bell M, Talley LE, Rotz LD, Rota PA, Sugerman DE, Gastañaduy PA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report [MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep] 2022 Apr 29; Vol. 71 (17), pp. 592-596. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 29.
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7117a2
Abstrakt: On August 29, 2021, the United States government oversaw the emergent establishment of Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and implemented by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of State (DoS), to safely resettle U.S. citizens and Afghan nationals from Afghanistan to the United States. Evacuees were temporarily housed at several overseas locations in Europe and Asia* before being transported via military and charter flights through two U.S. international airports, and onward to eight U.S. military bases, with hotel A used for isolation and quarantine of persons with or exposed to certain infectious diseases. § On August 30, CDC issued an Epi-X notice encouraging public health officials to maintain vigilance for measles among Afghan evacuees because of an ongoing measles outbreak in Afghanistan (25,988 clinical cases reported nationwide during January-November 2021) (1) and low routine measles vaccination coverage (66% and 43% for the first and second doses, respectively, in 2020) (2).
Competing Interests: All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
Databáze: MEDLINE