Ongoing measles outbreak, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 2023 to February 2024.

Sanjin MusaIrma Salimović-BešićJasmina Brkić DžambićNijaz TihićAnisa BajramovićSuzana ArapčićAmela Dedeić-LjubovićSiniša Skočibušić

Published in: Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (2024)

We report on an ongoing measles outbreak in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with 141 cases notified between week 52 2023 and week 6 2024. Among those with known vaccination status, 97% were unvaccinated and the most affected group is children under the age of 5 years (n = 87) who were not vaccinated during the pandemic years. Sixty-eight cases were hospitalised, the most common complications were measles-related pneumonia and diarrhoea. The sequenced measles viruses from four cases belonged to genotype D8.

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