Emergency Settings: Be Prepared to Vaccinate Persons Aged 15 and Over Against Measles

In their landmark article on measles pre-vention in emergency settings, Toole and colleagues recommended in 1989 that all children aged 6 months to 5 years should be immunized with measles vaccine at the time they enter an organized camp or settlement [1]. In 2000, Salama and colleagues documented substantial mor-tality during a famine emergency in Ethi-opia, with measles and malnutrition as major contributing factors. In a retro-spective study of mortality, measles alone, or in combination with wasting, accounted for 35 (22.0%) of 159 deaths among children younger than 5 year