Institute of Public Health of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro.
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
J Med Virol. 2022 Feb;94(2):514-520. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27377. Epub 2021 Oct 11.
In 2017, the Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) of the World Health Organization confirmed that measles elimination was sustained in Montenegro, and the previous endemic transmission remained interrupted. However, the RVC was extremely concerned over the continuing low vaccination coverage reported for this country. In this study, we describe the most recent measles epidemic in Montenegro using the epidemiological data collected from January 1 to July 31, 2018. The outbreak is largely attributable to a dangerous accumulation of susceptible subjects across the country and represents a high-risk factor for re-establishing endemic transmission in the Balkan area. This study showed how a vaccine-preventable communicable disease outbreak can have a dramatic impact and severe consequences on regional public health system performance in terms of the sanitary spending point of view. A detailed update is provided on the epidemiological situation in this Central European area, not available until now.
2017 年，世界卫生组织区域麻疹和风疹消除认证委员会（RVC）确认，黑山已持续消除麻疹，此前的地方传播也已中断。然而，RVC 对该国持续报告的低疫苗接种率表示极度关注。在本研究中，我们使用 2018 年 1 月 1 日至 7 月 31 日收集的流行病学数据，描述了最近在黑山发生的麻疹疫情。此次疫情主要是由于全国易感人群的危险聚集造成的，这是在巴尔干地区重新建立地方传播的高危因素。本研究表明，一种可通过疫苗预防的传染病爆发，如何能从卫生支出的角度对区域公共卫生系统的运行产生巨大影响和严重后果。提供了目前尚未公布的该中欧地区流行病学情况的详细更新。
