Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology

Background: Measles is vaccine preventable diseases, which cause significant morbidity and mortality among children worldwide especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. In Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples' Region outbreaks of measles occur every year. The aim was to rapidly investigate the outbreak epidemiologically and guiding response activities in the affected woreda, from March-April 2015.
Methods: We reviewed a line list and case register logbook of the districts, as the World Health Organization, measles case definition. We interviewed 50 cases and 100 controls, using a structured questionnaire. We applied a checklist to observe case managed health facility. We collected blood samples, transported and examined as per to standard. We used epi info 7 to analying the data.
Result: We identified 158 (five confirmed and 153 suspected) measles cases from line list, 86 (54.4%) were males, with median age of 6 years ranging from 7 months to 28 years. The most affected age was 5-9 years 90 (57%), with the age specific attack rate of 310/100,000.The epidemic peaked on 2/17/2015. We recruited 50 cases (median age of 5 years ranging from 1 year to 20 years), and 100 controls (median age 5 years ranging from 1 year to 14 years).Not-vaccinated for measles, [AOR=11.3, 95% CI (4-30.3)], Malnourished [AOR=8.6, 95% CI (3.8- 19.1)], and close Contact with cases, [OR=52.8, 95% CI (14.6, 190.3)], were factors significantly associated with the outbreak