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Volume 16, Number 3–March 2010
Letter
Measles Outbreak, the Netherlands, 2008
Susan Hahné, Margreet J.M. te Wierik, Liesbeth Mollema, Eva van Velzen, Eric de Coster, Corien Swaan, Hester de Melker, and Robert van Binnendijk
Author affiliations: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (S. Hahné, L. Mollema, C. Swaan, H. de Melker, R. van Binnendijk); Municipal Health Service, The Hague, the Netherlands (E. van Velzen, E. de Coster ); and Municipal Health Service, Utrecht, the Netherlands (M.J.M. te Wierik)

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To the Editor: From June 1 through October 16, 2008, an outbreak of 99 reported measles cases occurred in the Netherlands (1). This outbreak was the largest measles outbreak in the Netherlands since 1999–2000, when >3,200 cases, including 3 deaths, were reported (2).

In the Netherlands, clinical symptoms compatible with measles in a person with laboratory-confirmed measles virus infection or an epidemiologic link to a laboratory-confirmed case are notifiable (i.e., must be reported to public health authorities). The National Measles Reference Laboratory conducts genotyping and submits sequences to the World Health Organization European Region Measles Nucleotide Surveillance database (www.hpa-bioinformatics.org.uk/Measles/Public/Web_Front/main.php).

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Hahné S, te Wierik MJM, Mollema L, van Velzen E, de Coster E , Swaan C, et al. Measles outbreak, the Netherlands, 2008 [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2010 March [date cited]. http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/16/3/567.htm

DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.090114