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Epidemiological Surveillance of Measles Through a Network of Sentinel General Practitioners in Belgium

A STROOBANT, J M LAMOTTE, V VAN CASTEREN, R CORNELIS, D WALCKIERS and Y COLYN

Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology 14 J Wytsman Si, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Measles morbidity data were collected during 982ndash;1983 through a network of sentinel general practitioners. The annual incidence rate of the disease in the country was 80.3 per 10000 population with most of the cases seen between 2 and 6 years of age. Complications were encountered in 13.8% of all cases. Emphasis is put on developing a strategy for immunization against measles on a nationwide scale.


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