Monthly measles and rubella monitoring report, September 2018

Surveillance report
Publication series: Monthly measles and rubella monitoring report
Time period covered: 1 August 2017 to 31 July 2018
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Suggested citation: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Monthly measles and rubella monitoring report, September 2018. Stockholm: ECDC; 2018

This monitoring report is based on measles and rubella data from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) for the period 1 August 2017 to 31 July 2018.

All 30 countries reported measles data for July 2018, with a total of 758 cases reported by 21 countries and nine countries reporting zero cases.

The increase previously observed in Slovakia continued with 257 cases reported, compared with 72 and 18 cases in June and May 2018, respectively. Measles outbreaks are also ongoing in other EU/EEA countries.

Italy, France, United Kingdom, Germany and Greece continued to report high case counts but with a decreasing trend.

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