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Measles warning for Euro 2008
19 Apr 2008
Football fans travelling to Euro 2008 this summer have been urged to get vaccinated against measles following "significant" outbreaks of the disease in the tournament's host nations.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) says cases of measles in Austria and Switzerland, the two countries holding the competition, have increased considerably in recent months.
More than 1,300 measles cases were reported across Europe in the first three months of 2008, compared to just 800 cases recorded for the same time in 2007, figures from the ECDC show.
A joint team of experts from ECDC, Euvac.net and Austria are now carrying out a risk assessment of the situation in Austria ahead of Euro 2008.
Zsuzsanna Jakab, ECDC director, said that unvaccinated supporters travelling to the matches have a "high chance of being infected".
"Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in existence, causing serious illness and even death," she said.
"Significant outbreaks have occurred recently in several European countries, so the risk to the millions of unvaccinated Europeans is real."
She added that health workers needed to stress the importance of being unvaccinated to patients in Europe.
Although routine vaccination for measles was introduced in the 1980s, there are still many children and young people who are not vaccinated against the disease.
Indeed, ECDC's scientists estimate that up to three million people in the EU could be at risk through not having received a measles jab.
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