Vaccination of health-care workers
The importance of the protection of health-care workers from
measles infection has been promoted through studies performed
at VIDRL.
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here for reference (ref. 22)
Vaccination of health care workers is an important issue because
these workers are often young adults who remain susceptible to
measles infection because of failure to receive vaccine during
infancy or early childhood.
The potential of health care workers to transmit infection to
sick patients is high and has been observed in many hospital settings.
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here for reference (ref. 58)
