[An epidemiological investigation of outbreak of measles among temporarily living people in Shenyang].
This paper reported an outbreak of measles occurred in a factory of Heping District in Shenyang in March 1989. All of the six diagnosed cases were temporarily workers, which represented 15 percent (6/40) of total workers. No secondary cases were detected. The results of epidemiological and laboratory analysis showed that this outbreak was caused by an imported case, and only spread in temporarily workers. Furthermore, we discussed that under the condition that measles incidence was limited under control level, even imported cases could not cause epidemic of measles. So, it is indicated that the flowing people can easily cause accumulation of susceptible people in cities, which may result in outbreak of some infectious diseases.
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Sanitary and Anti-Epidemic Station of Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning.
D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008457:Measles / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014195:Travel