Social media posts regarding measles vaccination were classified as pro-vaccination,
expressing vaccine hesitancy, uncertain, or irrelevant. Spearman correlations with Centers …

In 2018, Europe experienced a surge in measles cases, revealing the consequences of
suboptimal immunization coverage. This trend was exacerbated by long-standing vaccine …

OBJECTIVES Areas of increased school-entry vaccination exemptions play a key role in
epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States. California eliminated …

Background Measles cases continue to occur despite its elimination status in the United
States. To control transmission, public health officials confirm the measles diagnosis, identify …

Background Leprosy is caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae and is characterized
by peripheral nerve damage and skin lesions. The disease is classified into paucibacillary …

Objectives Despite the verification of measles elimination, Japan experienced multiple
generations of measles transmission following importation events in 2016. The purpose of …

Although there have been many epidemiological reports of the inter-country transmission of
measles, systematic analysis of the global transmission dynamics of the measles virus (MV) …

Historically, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases have caused large, deadly, and
expensive multinational outbreaks. Often outbreak investigations aim to identify who infected …

Background Substantial heterogeneity in measles outbreak sizes may be due to genotype-
specific transmissibility. Using a branching process analysis, we characterize differences in …

Emerging diseases must make a transition from stuttering chains of transmission to
sustained chains of transmission, but this critical transition need not coincide with the system …