Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (Nov 2024)
Coordinated public health actions following the identification of a measles case arriving on an international flight, Spain: December 2022–January 2023
- Noemí López-Perea,
- Silvia Rivera Ariza,
- María Magdalena Salom Castell,
- Conchita Izquierdo Gómez,
- Montserrat Guillaumes,
- Aurora Fernández-García,
- Juan E. Echevarría,
- María Mar Mosquera,
- Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez,
- Ana Delia Cebollada Gracia,
- Virtudes Gallardo García,
- María Victoria García Rivera,
- Bernardo Guzmán Herrador,
- Isabel Huertas-Zarco,
- María del Carmen Pacheco Martínez,
- Inmaculada Rodero Garduño,
- Oscar Paz Montero,
- Berta Suárez Rodríguez,
- Josefa Masa-Calles
Affiliations
- Noemí López-Perea
- National Centre of Epidemiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Autonomous University of Madrid/IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain; Corresponding author. National Centre for Epidemiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
- Silvia Rivera Ariza
- Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
- María Magdalena Salom Castell
- Servei d'Epidemiologia, Conselleria de Salut i Consum, Illes Baleares, Spain
- Conchita Izquierdo Gómez
- Public Health Agency of Catalonia. Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain
- Montserrat Guillaumes
- Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Spain
- Aurora Fernández-García
- National Centre for Microbiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Juan E. Echevarría
- National Centre for Microbiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- María Mar Mosquera
- Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain; Microbiology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
- Lourdes Oliva Íñiguez
- Foreign Health Service, Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
- Ana Delia Cebollada Gracia
- Servicio de Vigilancia en Salud Pública. Gobierno de Aragón, Spain
- Virtudes Gallardo García
- Servicio de Vigilancia y Salud Laboral. Consejería de Salud y Consumo. Junta de Andalucía, Spain
- María Victoria García Rivera
- Servicio de Epidemiología. Consejería de Sanidad, Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Bernardo Guzmán Herrador
- Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
- Isabel Huertas-Zarco
- Servei de Vigilància i Control Epidemiològic. Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública. Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
- María del Carmen Pacheco Martínez
- Servicio de Epidemiología. Consejería de Sanidad. Junta de Castilla y León, Spain
- Inmaculada Rodero Garduño
- Área de Vigilancia y Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles, Subdirección General de Vigilancia en Salud Pública, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
- Oscar Paz Montero
- Servizo de Alertas Epidemiolóxicas. Xefatura Territorial de Sanidade de Pontevedra. Galicia, Spain
- Berta Suárez Rodríguez
- Coordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Directorate General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain
- Josefa Masa-Calles
- National Centre of Epidemiology. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 62
p. 102768
Abstract
Contact tracing of individual exposed to any infectious measles case deserves special attention when in the country the disease is mostly imported. We present the coordinated public health actions triggered after reporting a suspected measles case in an aircraft. Spanish public health authorities and airlines responded promptly to allow a rapid contact tracing. Even one secondary measles case was reported no further transmission was identified, revealing that giving PEP and appropriate information help to avoid transmission and to maintain measles elimination in Spain.
