The cost of measles: A CDC review

A measles outbreak investigation can be a very expensive task as was demonstrated in the Minnesota outbreak earlier this year when some 79 mostly children were infected costing the health department $2.3 million during the five-month outbreak.

Recently in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), an analysis was published looking at the Public Health Economic Burden Associated with Two Single Measles Case Investigations.

I was joined by Grace Marx, MD to discuss the MMWR report. Dr Marx is with the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and is the lead author of the paper.

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• Antibiotic resistance, the ‘post-antibiotic era’ and improving antibiotic stewardship
• Clostridium difficile awareness: A discussion with Steven LaRosa, MD
• Pandemic vs epidemic: What’s the difference and why does it matter?
• ‘What is a virus?’ and other questions answered
• Antibiotic crisis looming: Osterholm’s thoughts
• Bacteriophage therapy: A remarkable story
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and the importance of timely treatment with doxycycline
• H7N9 avian influenza in China: Should we be worried?
• Can kids be too clean? An interview with ‘Let Them Eat Dirt’ coauthor, B. Brett Finlay, PhD
• Hotez measles prediction: ‘Something awful is happening in Texas’

Intro music: “Rapture” by Ross Bugden