Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Schmid, D; Kasper, S; Kuo, H; Aberle, S; Holzmann, H; Daghofer, E; Wassermann-Neuhold, M; Feenstra, O; Krischka, C; Allerberger, F.
ONGOING RUBELLA OUTBREAK IN AUSTRIA, 2008-2009
EUROSURVEILLANCE. 2009; 14(16): 7-10.
Doi: 10.2807/ese.14.16.19184-en
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- Since October 2008, a total of 143 cases of rubella have affected the two Austrian provinces Styria and Burgenland. The index case occurred in mid-October 2008, but was not notified to the public health authorities until February 2009, when the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety was asked to investigate a cluster of 32 rubella cases (24 laboratory-confirmed and eight clinically suspected cases). No case of rubella had been reported in the two affected provinces between February 2007 - when statutory notification for rubella was implemented - and mid-October 2008. 113 of the 143 cases (79%) were confirmed: 101 (89.3% of the 113 cases) clinical-laboratory confirmed and 12 clinical-epidemiological confirmed. Thirty cases fulfilled the criteria of a probable outbreak case only (laboratory results or data on epidemiological link are pending). For 140 outbreak cases data on age was known; the median age was 19 years (range: 2-60 years). 20 cases occurred in soldiers in seven military camps in the area. 55 cases (38.5%) were female. One case of a laboratory-confirmed rubella infection, affecting an unvaccinated pregnant 18-years old native Austrian in the early first trimenon of pregnancy, led to voluntary abortion.