It seems therefore that the epidemiology of rubella is more sensitive to differences in mixing patterns than mumps and measles.
Analysis suggests that the pre-vaccination patterns of measles and mumps infection in the different countries were similar.
Measles vaccine efficacy during an outbreak in a highly vaccinated population : incremental increase in protection with age at vaccination up to 18 months.
We can conclude that low susceptibility countries have achieved or are very close to measles elimination.
We excluded individuals with unknown history of measles.
Measles outbreaks in a population with declining vaccine uptake.
Measles tends to die out in isolated communities of less than 250 000 but is often re-introduced by migrants and visitors.
Three patterns were observed in the country-specific measles seroprofiles, ranging from (very) low susceptibility (four countries) to high susceptibility (one country).
