CCIC Provider Education: It Is a Small World After All: The Public Health Impact and Immunologic Assessment of a Disneyland Measles Case in El Paso County, Colorado
Apr
21
2016
This presentation reviewed the public health response to a Disneyland-associated measles case in El Paso County, Colorado.
This session covered:
- A timeline of events
- How the disease investigation was conducted, specifically the use of Incident Command Structure and quarantine
- The immune status of the case, including the resulting serologic and avidity testing to help determine whether the previously vaccinated case represented secondary vaccine failure, atypical measles, or primary measles
Speakers:
Bernadette Albanese, MD, MPH - Medical Epidemiologist, Tri-County Health Department
Shannon Rowe, MPH - Communicable Disease Program Manager, El Paso County Public Health
