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Epidemiology of measles — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Epidemiology of measles — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_measles},
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Measles is extremely contagious, but surviving the infection results in lifelong immunity, so its continued circulation in a community depends on the generation of susceptible hosts by birth of children. In communities which generate insufficient new hosts the disease will die out. This concept was first recognized by Bartlett in 1957, who referred to the minimum number supporting measles as the critical community size (CCS). Analysis of outbreaks in island communities suggested that the CCS for measles is c. 250,000. Due to the development of vaccination against measles, the world has seen a 99% decrease in measles related cases compared to cases before the vaccine was developed.

Tema degli esploratori: scienze della vita e salute (deposito sistematico; ricerca «epidemiology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Epidemiology of measles» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_measles
Wikidata Q19904085 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19904085
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_measles?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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