Expansion of the measles and rubella laboratory network, India

Sharma, Deepa; Sangal, Lucky; Vijay, Neetu; Nalavade, Uma P.; Krishnasamy, Kaveri; Pawar, Shailesh D.; Kaur, Harmanmeet; Narayan, Jitendra; Rane, Sneha; Narkar, Manish; Arumugam, R.; Dhanagaran, D; Sugunan, A P; Balakrishnan, Anukumar; Joseph, Bestin; Turuk, Jyotirmayee; Sabat, Jyotsnamayee; Sahoo, Prakash Kumar; Barde, Pradip V; Sahare, Lalit; Ukey, Mahendra; Kumar, Manoj; Sinha, Nikesh; Bhuttoo, Zulfiquar Ali; Vijayachari, P.; Chander, Punnam; Sharma, Shivangi; Venkatesha, D; Gayathree, L; Sharma, Chethan; Bhatnagar, Pankaj; VanderEnde, Kristin; Kaundal, Nirmal; Murugan, Ratnesh; Haldar, Pradeep; Gadkari, Deepak A.; Aggarwal, Neeraj; Gupta, Nivedita

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“…This will offer a successful method of immunizing a large populace while also promoting vaccine awareness and overcoming vaccine hesitancy among the general public for further measles prevention and control. The WHO and the Indian government are working together to create a program to increase the number of laboratories doing molecular and serological testing for the detection of measles throughout India [10] . Fourteen novel laboratories have been added to the Indian measles and rubella laboratory network as a result of this agreement between 2018 and 2021.…”

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Outbreak of measles: threatening India’s goal to achieve elimination

Shariff,

Emir Chehab,

Kassem

et al. 2023

International Journal of Surgery: Global Health

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Measles is an acute viral infection that disseminates through direct person-to-person contact and airborne transmission. It primarily affects children under the age of 5, and there is no known season when it is more likely to occur [1] . In Figure 1, the measles symptoms are depicted [2] . Measles incidence and mortality have decreased since the 1960s, when the vaccine first became readily available (Fig. 2). Nonetheless, 2019 had the largest number of reported deaths globally in 20 years, with over 200,000 mortalities [3] .

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Section: Recommendations To Achieve Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Outbreak of measles: threatening India’s goal to achieve elimination

Shariff,

Emir Chehab,

Kassem

et al. 2023

International Journal of Surgery: Global Health

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Measles: The Disease That Refuses to Be Vanquished

Talekar

Porotto

2023

Emerging Human Viral Diseases, Volume I

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Strengthening of Vaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) Surveillance to Enhance National Health Capacity and Security: Perspective from India

Kumar,

Murugan,

Donkatti

et al. 2024

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The Government of India, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), established the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) in 1997 and initiated acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance to achieve the goal of polio eradication. The WHO South-East Asia Region, comprising of 11 countries, including India, was certified as polio-free in March 2014. India was also validated to have eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus in May 2015. Over the years, the surveillance of other vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) was integrated with AFP surveillance in the country. Outbreak-based measles–rubella (MR) surveillance was initiated in 2005 using AFP surveillance as a platform, case-based fever–rash (FR) surveillance started in 2021 as one of the strategies to achieve measles and rubella elimination in the country. The surveillance of diphtheria, pertussis, and neonatal tetanus was integrated with AFP surveillance in a phased manner during 2015–2022. The surveillance system for VPDs in India, supported by a laboratory network of 10 polio laboratories, 28 measles–rubella laboratories, and 20 diphtheria–pertussis laboratories, has enhanced the national health capacity and security. The setting up and expansion of the surveillance system in the country involved the important component of capacity building of personnel on various components of surveillance, including case identification, case investigation, sample collection and shipment, data analysis and public health response. These capacities have been used effectively during other emergencies, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during outbreaks of other diseases and natural calamities.

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Expansion of the measles and rubella laboratory network, India

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Outbreak of measles: threatening India’s goal to achieve elimination

Outbreak of measles: threatening India’s goal to achieve elimination

Measles: The Disease That Refuses to Be Vanquished

Strengthening of Vaccine-Preventable Disease (VPD) Surveillance to Enhance National Health Capacity and Security: Perspective from India

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