Open AccessMeasles outbreak in Kaunas, Lithuania
Author(s) -
O Ivanauskiene,
N Kriauciuniene
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.06.44.01957-en
Subject(s) - measles , outbreak , incidence (geometry) , population , geography , cluster (spacecraft) , lithuanian , demography , environmental health , virology , medicine , vaccination , sociology , physics , computer science , optics , programming language , linguistics , philosophy
Lithuania, with a population of 3.5 million, has had a low reported incidence of measles for the past few years (figure 1). In 2002, however, a cluster of measles cases was detected in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city with a population of nearly 400 000.