Measles vaccination in health care personnel: Mandates, ethics, and patient safety

Immune status of health care workers to measles virus: evaluation of protective titers in four measles IgG EIAs

“…Nonetheless, however, measles infection among HCW should be prevented. Therefore, as vaccination is both safe as well as costeffective, one might argue that HCW with negative measles IgG and lower levels of neutralizing antibody, create an opportunity to boost immunity by vaccination and thus contribute to better herd immunity and measles protection among HCW [2][3][4]8,31].…”

“…Measles is the most transmissible human disease known and medical settings constitute a highly significant site of measles transmission [1][2][3][4]. Health care workers (HCW) are at substantially higher risk than the general population for becoming infected with measles.…”

“…Health care workers (HCW) are at substantially higher risk than the general population for becoming infected with measles. This is due to their professional duties and the re-emergence of measles in several developed countries causing an increasing number of hospital admissions for measles [1][2][3][4][5][6]. When infected, HCW constitute a risk of transmission to non-immune or immune-compromised patients.…”

“…When infected, HCW constitute a risk of transmission to non-immune or immune-compromised patients. Therefore, documentation of their measles immune status and vaccination has recently been emphasized [2,3,7]. In the US, for example, HCW who were born in 1957 or later are considered immune only if they have laboratory confirmation of immunity or documentation of having received two appropriate doses of vaccine [7].…”

Seroprevalence of measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella amongphysicians and nurses in Jordan

“…Therefore, our results, except for measles, are within the regional range. However, such results in healthcare workers might be unsatisfactory, since these infections are highly transmissible and require very high population-level immunity (19). There was no significant difference in immunity between the physician and nurse groups except for mumps, where more nurses (94.2%) than physicians (88.5%) (P = 0.025) were immune, which could be due to the older age of participating nurses.…”