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Prevalence of risk factors for acquiring measles during the 2011 outbreak in Quebec and impact of the province-wide school-based vaccination campaign on population immunity.

Marie-Noëlle BillardGaston De SerresMarie-Claude GariépyNicole BoulianneEveline TothMonique LandryDanuta M Skowronski
Published in: PloS one (2017)
The concentration of measles cases in the two most-affected health districts during the large Quebec outbreak is not explained by more students who were unvaccinated or who had received their first vaccine dose at a younger age. The vaccination campaign reached one-third of unvaccinated students and only marginally improved population immunity.
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