Measles vaccines

Abstract

The World Health Organization has settled the goal of measles elimination in European Region by the year 2007. The proposed measles elimination strategy is to reduce an estimated proportion of susceptible individuals in the population to low levels by intensive vaccination and to maintain these low levels for some years. In this strategy, the quality of measles vaccine used for immunization is crucial. The different kinds of measles vaccines used at present in the world and novel generations of vaccines are presented.