Rubella outbreak, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1995: A clash of two preventive strategies

Citation
Sc. Craig et al., Rubella outbreak, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1995: A clash of two preventive strategies, MILIT MED, 164(9), 1999, pp. 616-618
Citations number
8
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
MILITARY MEDICINE
ISSN journal
0026-4075 → ACNP
Volume
164
Issue
9
Year of publication
1999
Pages
616 - 618
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-4075(199909)164:9<616:ROFBNC>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
An outbreak of rubella occurred among visiting German troops involved in a combined military exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in April 1995. Pu blic health and military operational concerns centered on the significant c ontact the German soldiers had had with host battalion dependents and the i mpact of the outbreak on the exercise. Ten of the 120 German soldiers were found to be nonimmune; six of these soldiers developed clinical rubella. Th e four nonimmune soldiers who did not develop shin rashes had received seru m immune globulin within 12 hours of identification of the index case. The impact of this outbreak on the Fort Bragg community and its military operat ions, and the methods used to control the outbreak and salvage the military mission, are described.